Monday, December 21, 2015

Last Time.



I'd been working in the fall chill
clipping dead flowers from the yard

when I decided on a short ride
through our neighborhood,
grabbed a skateboard
from the basement,
and went.

Immediately,
in the physicality
of balance and velocity,
hum of wheels on pavement
like waves on a beach,

I headed west
as a burning sunset
dove into the woods
at East Rec,
gone, just as I
used to do 
in this same
oak forest
20 years ago,

just as I
may never
do again.

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