Evelyn Lang

Centering Down

Late autumn once again, and here on this sun-warmed granite doorstep, I bask--a favorite book for company, a mug of tea warms my hands, fogs my reading glasses. Poems in the book memorized anyway--just sink down to the center of warm . . .

sun on the pines--
and still i try to memorize
what words cannot say

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