Poetics: Whatever the Weather • Reckoning

Resident Marie Waite visits with Travis the llama 

at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton, Mass. 

— Photo by João Canziani, from AARP Bulletin

Reckoning

Dementia patient and llama meet
weekly in the memory care corral,
                a comfort station along 

                the trail of lost thought, 

in the pungent pasture of 

                uprooted memory
where a summer's day is evermore —
and nevermore — flittering like a
dream caught then released,
as bright as crisp morning and lazy
as lush afternoon reckoning with
                a hazy blue gloaming, 

beckoning to the velvet night.

                                      MLydiaM ~ July 2012

Written for Poetics—Whatever the Weather at dVerse Poets.

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