bittersweet
Seattle streets
familiar pavement
on my feet
do you remember?
our hearts:
breathing/beating
burnished/sweeping
bound as one
with salty strands
when the forest
joined our hands
don't forget
the day you took
your first steps
(pine needles underfoot)
your lungs expanded-
first breath
(sea mist surrounding)
the first day of
that relentlessly new
sharply shining
brightly worthy
adven-journey
For Frederick, Eli, Faraji, Cody, David, John, Ariana, Allie, Jenny, Sabrina, and Hope.
