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A bright, clear and cold night…
The near full moon setting low in the winter sky,
Illuminating the bare tree branches;
Casting ghostlike shadows on the snow;
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The wandering gusts of winter wind
Repeat and follow and reply
And flow over the tops of the forest
Of this dark night's bare branches,
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Does this feel good or what?

Good to be back in these Acadian hills,
Touching these granite rocks once again…
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A slow turn of her head away from me,
Her eyes gazing at nothing in particular.
She turns back and with a brave face says,
'This may be something really bad.'
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To Our Unparted Spirits…

Do you remember those first few years?
Every day was so bright and new?
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A cute little chickadee
Flits to my back deck here,
As I sit, quietly sipping a beer.
She pecks at tiny, seedy morsels I can’t even see;
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The sight of the dawn light peering through the trees of our back lot;
The chirps of the chickadees yearning for spring outside our windows;
The appearance of first buds poking their way to the sun;
The freshening aromas of our flowers and grasses as they reawaken.
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My love, my wife…
Home now for so many months…
Laboring with a slowly diminishing Life-force
Since insidious ALS began its treacherous scheme
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Each night I climb the stairs to our bedroom.
En route, I pass by the room you left this world from.
I pause and say “Good night, Honey Pie; sweet dreams.”
Just like in real life, before you got so sick.
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"I don't go out anymore, " she said, matter-of-factly,
When quizzed by the new boys on the other side of the bar.
She's got the look; got that well put-together appeal…
They just had to ask.
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My bird is up and singing at 4am.

Long before the sun, my bird has arisen…
His song heard from the high trees across the way.
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My neighbors used to be far away in the woods.
I liked it that way. So did they.

Like Robert Frost wrote in "Mending Wall",
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Full Buck Moon is here;
Native American named…
New antlers appear.
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A man can watch a thousand sunsets;
Live under a thousand full moons;
A man can hold a thousand secrets;
Love on a thousand days of Mays and Junes.
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Another day breaks;
Another cup of coffee
Stares back at me
From a “Table for one, please”.
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The firefly blinks, and blinks again,
Against dark shadows of night
On a perpetual search
On an invisible flight,
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I situate locks of Deb’s hair in her favorite places.

Hunting Island State Park Beach,
Beaufort, South Carolina, Noon, March 10,2015
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The night was restless, ,
4 am and butterfly thoughts are flitting about,
With no two resolving together; not one complete.
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I walk these days…

Sometimes in the local forest
On familiar trails
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Had to get off this island of self exile,
For to find myself someplace else to be.
Had to change the horizons,
Before it all got the best of me.
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Bill Galvin Biography

" Timestamps and Timepieces" - 2018 - www.lulu.com " Reflections on a Moon" -2016- www.lulu.com " Musings and Reflections" -2017- www.lulu.com " Ripples" (Haiku, etc.) -2017- www.lulu.com)

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Reflections On A Moon

A bright, clear and cold night…
The near full moon setting low in the winter sky,
Illuminating the bare tree branches;
Casting ghostlike shadows on the snow;
Ghostly arms and fingers stretching around the yard.
At three in the morning
I am looking out the window of an empty room;
An empty room in a lonely house.
A house made quiet with your passing.

A silent moon sets on a quiet night.

A long, soulful and loving relationship…
With many moons, full and not so full,
Passing silently overhead;
Casting mysterious light down to us.
Some seen, some missed, some ignored;
Some we danced under, some we sang to.
Some we loved under…
Some we expressed our love under.

I remember the date… you told me recently…
September 8,1972.

Forty-two years is a lot of moonlight.

3-3-2015
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