[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Flare

[Hampton, Stuart]

That’s a lovely sonnet, Gordon.

 

Stuart

 

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Subject: [Oe List ...] Flare

 


On the occasion of Sandra's passing.
Written on a flight from Seattle to San Antonio



                        Flare

We see too well how hard it is
To find so much of memory gone;
To grin and bear the aches of age –
Our own and those around us;
And deuced hard it has to be
To say goodbye so frequently
To those with whom we've worked and fought
And cared and laughed and rolled our eyes.

How then this wash of quiet joy,
This sense of blessing in the taking,
Unbidden sweep of gratitude,
That takes its way through bone and brain
And makes it so confounded hard
To see life left as any less?

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