In Loving Memory

IN LOVING MEMORY

October 1990

ACROSS THE MILES

Five years and how many stars away,

what have you seen by now?

Have you watched the binding of the Pleiades

or the loosening of the bands of Orion?

Have you counted the water jars tipped

into our mountain sky; followed

the guiding of Arcturus at his

appointed time;

surveyed the storehouses of snow?

If there is no weeping there, have you

attended the charting of peace

and hummed to the melodic

lights of healing?

Here, on this stilly autumn night

we recall the examples of prudence and

humanity, generosity and humor

you set for us

and think or you, Adventurer.

Christine Janz Taylor

Published in The Blowing Rocket October 1990