still

sparrow looks back

brown and white bird

May breath continue. May not-yet-imagined descendants of a coming dawn know birdsong and the creak of timeworn joints tempered by long life.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

2 thoughts on “still”

    1. Thinking about my grandma a lot lately. She knew well how to see and listen to the unseen, and when it seemed especially dark had a way of reminding, “there’s another hand in this, and she’s got a longer sense of time.” I don’t have her grace, but her memory inspires me. Love to you and your family (and all of us) now, Jeff.

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