“I will forever stand around the labyrinth in that half-lit  candle etched great hall”

“As a child, surprise parties, the few I’ve experienced, were at best unsettling, at worst, ill-timed.”

“On this morning of my Third Age, I search in the labyrinth for a door.”

“Joe Campbell’s heroes had a thousand faces,

I search for goddesses with a thousand faces.”

“If I fell on my knees here on the sidewalk, forehead to ground

 what neighbor would find it unsurprising?”

“Those great tall Guardians to the West

assure me I’m not alone; deep green vast needled arms

reaching skyward.”

“A sun rising, a dawn, a birth of a new part of her life: of the

generative and nurturing potential of her life, simply a matter

of the continuity of the species, that’s all.”