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The Hydra


Still holding onto yesterday,

tomorrow calls my name

 

The comfort of what time has blessed,

my life within its frame

 

Those two directions—front and back,

a hydra running loose

 

Do I embrace what’s in the past

—or what is yet to choose

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)

 

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