We're Never Completely in One Place

 August 10, 2020

 Dear Subscriber:

 Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is friendship.

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 A friendship poem about remembering friends who are leaving permanently for distant places:

 We're never completely in one place. Some part
Of us hangs out on streets we barely remember,
Or converses with faces no longer familiar. Or we start
Lunch in June, and sneak off into December.
Every encounter has a beginning, but never
An ending. Like an exquisite ecosphere,
The mind turns each raindrop into forever,
Nor does it allow one word to disappear.
Some evening, years from now, we'll be driving home,
Talking, I in your car, or you
In mine, driving through rich Iowa loam,
Or flowering Jersey suburbs, or Kalamazoo.
It will not matter, as we speak, whether
Our lives are bitter or sweet. We'll be together.

 © by Nicholas Gordon

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 This week’s theme: Friendship
August 10: We’re Never Completely in One Place