End of Summer, Selections and Reflections
As the eldest child prepares herself
for another year
another year
another year
a final year
of high school,
as the youngest child wakes up
from the humming
little X Box
and opens up his books,
As the husband returns from Sturgis
with a rumbling sense
of the road
and the deepening scent
of coming home,
the mom looks to the rapid
world,
and murmurs
oh ...
slow,
slow,
slow.
