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Images Of An Evening Song

1 Evening,            moon ascending, silver notes swim in a fluid melody -- the present pressing into mere shadow what once was and what will become. 2 Images: A    bed, a young girl lays comfortably snuggled beneath dreams of sewing machines and needles, stitches and thread.           Beside her, her love enfolds a doll wearing a newly made dress. Asleep, a boy clad in blue shorts and matching baseball cap relives a day of karate kicks and splintered boards         -- Mr. Tough Guy. Next to him, a worn teddy bear peers out contently from the folds of a rumpled sheet And another -- A toddler sprawled as if she owns the world.  (And she does) 3 The      past subdued, these are now chess pieces enough for me -- not to move, but to guide;             the board riskier than any I have ever chanced before. Observing the images, my wife's arm rests lightly about my waist as her smile embraces my heart.         They     are ours, these pictures, for now. Until the evening's song changes key. And even then,                   ours.

Copyright © July 2001 carl a wertman


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