Thursday, May 5, 2016

pat pat pat pat
the children's feet
scramble up and down
the stairs
- nearly two centuries ago -
of Longfellow's poem.
perhaps today
there are great great
great great
grandchildren.
perhaps they can be heard
somewhere now
on somewhere stairs
their own
little feet
tumbling in abandon
making noise
making symphony
with ancient ancestors
who also live
still wild and child
their feet
still heard
in Longfellow's poem.

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