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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Two Ways Home
>
> Taking the scenic route in the dark
> isn't as dumb as it may seem.
>
> It may be slower, more winding,
> even a little less safe,
>
> but knowing it well,
> driving up those hills,
>
> eyes focussed on what
> the headlights pick out,
>
> you bring to mind what
> you've seen often well-lit,
>
> and that's always handsome -
> the vineyards, whatever season,
>
> the old aqueduct that connected
> the high valley lake
>
> with the town when it was young;
> the cypress windbreaks always
>
> darkly protective, the pasture
> hollows whether flooded or
>
> in recent years parched -
> depressing depressions! -
>
> now green again, grazed on
> by a new set of lambs;
>
> young tree plantations
> speaking of trust in a future
>
> moist enough for growth;
> the cemetery rectangle with
>
> monuments - every degree
> of cost and vanity;
>
> the recent subdivision's
> new street lights and house-lights
>
> still with gaps awaiting builders.
> You sigh: progress -
>
> remember that lovely farm? -
> as if cows are preferable
>
> to humans. Drive on home,
> you live where orchards
>
> flourished once, humans
> flourish now, fed from farms
>
> further away. The straight drive
> home would have stuck to highways
>
> dense with business
> almost without cease.
>
> Here's hoping the long-haul drivers
> also have an eye for the vineyards,
>
> the bush that burned
> and now renews itself,
>
> the hills, the hourly-changing sky,
> and right now that new moon up high.
>
>
> Max Richards (75 today, 13 June)
>
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