Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The Gathering 2018: A reflection on old friends meeting

The Gathering 2018
Slowly flows the Chenango, past where the old men
once swam as boys, emptying into Chesapeake Bay,
near where once lads chose to save and spend the day
to empty old/new stories about it had been long when.
The legend talks kept on coming right and left with
some differences of memory between the old males
and joint eyeball rolling among the listening females
while seeing dead wine soldiers dropping 5th by 5th.
The tone of the meeting shifts to remembering loss
of other friends and family and how they're loved,
operating with surgical precision, hand and gloved,
so that tears wouldn't come to pass as evening's boss.
They laughed lots, thanking God for time well spent,
and how blessed they had been for what years meant.

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