From Here to There

Really.  You want to go to school all the way across the country.  Really.  It's been almost a month.  Nate is so far across the country and we miss him so.  Stretched across the country.  We often think about him from here to there.  Eli can hardly stand the lack of wrestling and Magic games.  Emily gets away with a lot more picking at things.  Though the house tips a little when Nate isn't here I am thrilled at the connections he's making and how he seems to be just soaking in every ounce of that school.  That's what bouys me up and keeps me afloat.  A Gary Snyder poem here and there helps too. 

                                                               

How Poetry Comes to Me

It comes blundering over the
Boulders at night, it stays
Frightened outside the
Range of my campfire
I go to meet it at the
Edge of the light