Sunday, October 21, 2012

"YES"


Midlife
by Julia Caldwallader-Straub


This is as far as the light
of my understanding
has carried me:
an October morning
a canoe built by hand
a quiet current

above me the trees arc
green and golden
against a cloudy sky

below me the river responds
with perfect reflection
a hundred feet deep
a hundred feet high.

To take a cup of this river
to drink its purple and gray
its golden and green

to see
a bend in the river up ahead
and still
say
yes
 
 

3 comments:

Peggy said...

A nice big sigh of recognition here. Thank you. xx

Ms. said...

I loved the end of that poem--

to see
a bend in the river up ahead
and still
say
yes

To be able to forge on when things get twisty and you can't precisely see beyond the unknown turn, is such a nice allusion to just about everything about life, as is the river metaphor.

Nancy said...

Beautiful Michelle. And...yes...I need to remember that ending.
Yes.