PLACE
Place, geography,
a mountain, a river, the ocean,
seeing whatever we see when
we look at the window each morning
or walk and see when we walk
out our front door
each day – sculpts
how we see and how we feel and are.
Most Sundays
as a kid our dad took us to
Owl’s Head Park, but we
knew it as Bliss Park.
With a name like that you’d expect impact –
especially looking out of the
New York Harbor at its top.
My Mom
told us she grew up on
Galway Bay in Ireland
and every morning she could
put her big toe in the water
from her back door and my dad said
he grew up only a rock throw away.
Place, geography,
parks, the city, country,
water, desert, farms,
noise, soot, smog, sirens,
all impact us within and without,
how we see and how we feel
and then there are people, you and me.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
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