then and now

mountains in my life

loom over my breath

while I watch rising moons

and walk through streets

    dark with night

every day I climb

to my home carved

into the side of a mountain

and here I find solace

    I used to have long brown hair

    and it flew in coastal winds

    while I fed ducks in a city lagoon

    and thought I knew everything

now growing older all the time

losing my walking shoes

languishing in the hot sun

I am empty of youth

just a woman filled with memories

………………………………….

and my mountains

live somewhere else

without me