LEAVING

 

I remember I saw a small ancient church

in Bath, England, on the one side of which babies

climbed ladders. In stone.

 

These figures are like every

one's extremely young children

who leave early childhood so

easily it unfills the parents'

breath. And if all goes well all celebrate

 

the growing. The growing,

going, gone. Is the way life is:

how it's done.

 

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