For Michael March
1947 - 2025
A Work in Progress
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(better known to Donal as peachie le nic)
a flagstone path moss in places lichen
well made for constant traversal beside our home
ten wheelbarrow loads to the herb garden
three beds replenished with black wormy loam
down the slope of the hill to the dogwood tree
where the path steepens and forks three ways
takes you near, far, and faraway from thee
into other domains each wilder, may
you safely return who go that way now
there’s work to be done out on the border
or, if you venture without knowing how
into tangled tumbledown disorder
outside the gate on our property’s edge
beyond the prickles of our holly hedge
Dick Russell
Copyright © February 18, 2020
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