twenty/twenty
(Published Yellow Moon Literary Magazine)
a moment of truth
in an hazy atmosphere
covering the sun
this indian summer
is perchance my final trek
uphill the weight
of many albatrosses
has thinned my hair
yet confetti colored leaves
cascade down the mountainside
along this charade
a splay of spruce needles
in the autumn wind
their range more flexible
than my rheumatic knees
now mockingly
an amber dragonfly taunts
my aging eyes
no longer twenty/twenty
I opt for binoculars
back home at last
it's another sleepless night
but a bit more time
to revise the death poem
saved in my drafts folder