I can no longer dot the i’s, nor cross the t’s.
A pale haze, like Sunday afternoons,
pleasant after a glass of wine too many,
drifts across my day. I am at peace.
I find myself disposed to acquiesce,
content to live life at this gentle pace,
content, it seems, with how life’s focus,
now diminished, takes on the softened blur
of evening light.
Something sharp is lost. But the time
for mourning it is done. The wind that swelled
the sails has dropped, the tide recedes,
the fierceness of the sun is quenched,
leaving the sunshine’s golden glow
that speaks the lateness of the hour.
A taste of salt upon my lips -
no call for worry or regrets -
a bitter-sweet recall of what has gone.
Julia Duke