“A Moment (After W.S. Merwin)” by Kevin Carey

"A Moment"

        After WS Merwin 
 
There’s a moment when 
it all bubbles up 
and you cry for no reason, 
the melancholy like a blanket 
or a good country song, 
and you get comfortable with it, 
like an old friend just pulled 
into your driveway, 
or you came by a photo 
of way back when,
and it doesn’t floor you 
like it used to,
but wraps around you, 
reminds you that this is always the hour 
and you stand in the yard 
listening to the last songbirds 
of the evening, the cricket choir, 
the night falling, 
whispering thank you thank you. 

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