What Was and Will Be:
(For Raechel on her 60th )

The joys and tears of ample years

met and met again

on roads of dark

and roads of light

and places in between

make your heart its own reward.

The 60-year yes

in reaching and having

in longing for life

bring you dreams

of worlds beyond worlds

and patterns within patterns.

Your knowing feeds knowing

and opens new ways

to birth the many

as one

and send

the one out

to fill the fullness you are.

So turn on the tide of your life

in your shallows

and your depths

swinging as long fronds

rooted but free.

So much have your waters

yet to give

in decades yet to be.