Sunday, November 18, 2018

November 24, 2018


ROOTS

Rairly noticed, necessary, needed,
without whom I would not be here,
wearing the shoes and socks
of earth, dirt …. Roots: all these people
who have gone before me - buried
beneath my feet - names and numbers
on their gravestones and now on my DNA.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018


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