Thank you, AC. Thank you for the generous compliment. i only hope i can be placid and calm at the end. Dylan Thomas said do not go gently ... i think we need to fight as long as we can, but there comes a point, when it is time to allow life's flow to take us peacefully. And we need to accept it, both for ourselves and the ones who, hopefully, sit in vigil.
We were walking home from voting on a windy bright day when the first one came to me.. happened. I remembered what you often say ... it's little things and memories we, as poets, need to record. The little bits that make up life. Your words came to me as the wind picked up and made a vortex of bright leaves. oxooxox