every moment of living

someone makes an exit


and a tribe is diminished

by that much


but the golden sun

the long shadows of afternoon


those things that plucked

certain strings on our instruments


they continue to reverberate

while each of us


awaits our time to go

and the permanence of that scene


makes it seems as if there is no time at all

but our very living....





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