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Poets Corner
Confirmation
of what we know
and have known through time
settles all, even to the last.
Affirmation,
a telling shift and lock,
the reach and stretch
of a heel coming down just right.
The world is as we knew it
when days were long
and the sun shone endless
across fields and woodlands,
when distances were great,
anticipation keen.
Patterns and textures
are as they were then,
but we wear shoes now
and the pulse of grass
can be heard only through bare skin.
It's in the shoes, it seems.
Folded up, tucked away in the instep
is the trust we flaunted
out of sheer joy
of what was ours.
We need to open that up again
to the light, walk in the grass
and feel it all shift back
into place.
Along the way,
we'll hold hands
with those
who haven't been there before.
( Copyright © Jerry Bolick, 28 January 2003 )