RANDOM HANDSHAKES - ALI H. RADDAOUI

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Recollections


On Grand Street of Montenegro Town
Evergreens come and go
After a fashion of alignment
Calculated from before inception time.
They slip into the rear view mirror
And out into oblivion.
On Grand Street of Montenegro Town
This olive tree stands tall
Her foliage slanted
Toward the end point of the horizon.
On the ground, underneath
The breeze jazzes with the bushes
And buzzes with the bees
And pats the wings of humming birds.
Underneath the trunk
Her roots dig into the ground
Sink toward the four corners
And seep into this Midwestern soil
As the branches up above
Wave good bye to the passerby.
I acknowledge the foliage
And wave back
Not knowing whether
I will wind back there
In this life or another.

Ali H. Raddaoui
02/16/2019

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