The Season You're In

“Tell us about the season you’re in. The changing weather outside, the changing landscape inside.” Laura Kelly Fanucci offered this prompt on Instagram at the start of September. It’s called a “slash poem.” Here’s what I wrote, having just reached the milestone of my 60th birthday.

Sixty
hummingbirds by the railing / hawks circling overhead / barges on the river below /
neighborhood strolls with an aging beagle / DEXA scan / leaving church / finding prayer /
walks in the woods / gray hair / calcium, magnesium, Vitamin D&K / Nana’s house /
road trips /toy basket by the couch / deadlift, squat, bench press / library books / swimming /
piano lessons / garden plot /remembering then / savoring now