ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 7
WHOLE LIFE
day of cold rain then late afternoon
a heavy fog packs the air
next day strong sun shows how the rain
whittled the brown leaves from the trees
so that even the center of the woods is bright
everything is now visible
all contours and structures revealed
your whole life you've worked on this on that
the other too and still the this the that
and other are where they were before you tried
these are the months of long shadows
the weeks go by like faded regrets
and the days the hours the minutes
clear out one by one no more looking back
for if the long shadows can be seen ahead anyway
then what is behind you is now in front of you