I am waiting for the boarding call to sound.<\/p>\n
To carry feet homeward, standing tall and waver amidst the rushing.<\/p>\n
I am the slender grass that bends to the pressure of rushing water,<\/p>\n
Feet, hands, eyes. A hungry herding din that rises up.<\/p>\n
They glance then turn away, bleary voices mumbling,<\/p>\n
malcontent of the onward crowding crush to the next plane.<\/p>\n
Weary crowd that presses me to action,<\/p>\n
to move, restless salmon-rush pushing on to Home,<\/p>\n
where he is, that first homecoming to a place I’ve never known.<\/p>\n
To rest at long last, silently amidst the trees, the roses, his arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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