traveling north
I am the driver
but best match
the back seat descriptor.
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image credit: earth porn
with
one sister visiting
one sister gone too soon
only brother on his way
grandchildren in tow
we visited the place
where we had grown up.
it looked much the same
yet felt somehow not.
much like us.
—
“there is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
-nelson mandela
and on the day
that a royal prince was born
a baby sister was born
and our butterfly babies were born
each arrival was nothing less than spectacular.
—
“birth is the sudden opening of a window,
through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect.
for what has happened?
a miracle.
you have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.”