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Robin Diamond

His Perfect Path: Erodium

Art work by my dear friend Cheryl Beychok, done on a phone app

His Perfect Path: Erodium

The pampas tufts have long been

forever the tree casts a shadow now that all have come home

the childrens’s swings in the yard now still

now is ever and ever

when father arrives home through the gate

eternal is the white fence and the grey slate

upon which fern and trellis uphold Erodium and Myscanthus in the late afternoon.

How the sun leans against the western face alighting

two windows peering, eyes upon day’s ebbing gleam and the happy home

turns gold with pink geranium trailing in bursts of symmetrical gladness

on the little porch where they belong

I wonder at His perfect path

of flagstone meandering down the lane

hedges saluting honoring the way to the willow

and the flowerings perennial

About the Author
Robin is a retired Language Arts high school teacher who taught in the Los Angeles Unified District for 25 years. After retiring in 2010, she hurriedly made aliyah in 2011.
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