Stephen Mead

Grace

                                                                                     

After disillusionment comes the eventual light:

a prancing cat, this folly-lift

dancing through time's youthful truths

in slippers which make not a sound-----

It is a use to be so happy in the abundance of age

silver hair hints of about the crown, & you, love,

rain-right as central heating working your soul

through its own Chesapeake Bay.