RIVERWOODS POEMS: PLACEMENTS

PLACEMENTS

I’ve grown accustomed to this space

These two big rooms I shared with you

Where in the parking lot they face

I see compadres come and go.

We shared small places, you and I

Two-person tents on river banks

The back porch of a double-wide

Youth hostels where we flung our packs.

But we shared larger spaces too

The canyon’s depths, the river’s run

The prairie’s breadth, the ocean’s blue

The broad earth was our living room.

Now you have sought a distant star

While I am lightly tethered here.