The Reaches of a Life
(for Lisette on her 80th birthday)
I believe in the continuum of a life and the infinity of a
life
In life waves rippling-ringing outward onto
the future
in the immeasurable motions of our
moments, lives times lives
in immemorial dreamseed in undreamt
futures growing
as the lost past lives in us as we shall be in the last
reaches of our kind
as my words bloom from your life, which is a strong
life and growing,
one with the beginning & endlessness of all.
Harry Smith
Two Friends II
Birch Book Press 1988
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