five
some begin before dawn and end at noon, others begin in full light and end at midnight
my private lair went everywhere learning what could be done by doing what I could do
women taught me more than I could learn, I laboring in men’s fields to lie with women
I too need your succor, you need mine more, what is there to do and how can it be done
in my aging I have come to a place where I cannot go on without words taking me there
at dawn or in bright day I am who I still am at noon, and no one else after any midnight
(2 September 2013)
copyright 2013 by Floyce Alexander
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