Matinicus with Anne, April 2007

There is too much incoming need, 

So I start looking at old photos

Years of many springs, and I come
Across a photo of Anne in
Her muck boots striding on an
Island road

I recognize that stretch
And her steady pace

I am trying to find

That place around here that 

I thought about

Last summer maybe, in a poem

Maybe in my heart, I

Can’t recall, but where I am going to 

Plant more cherry trees