A man left this life
as he lived it:
dignified and circumspect
private and kind
yes, wearier
but no less wealthy
of spirit
of expansive ken
whose river-soul rarely raged
and never dried to a bed
if stones lay at its deeps
they lay in cool content
if in its wading shallows,
smoothed by the steady flow
of life elemental
purposeful and certain
the space permeated with light
sending it upward upward upward
to glance radiant off his smile.
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March 14, 2013