Thursday, May 23, 2019

Overmorrow ...

Today’s word is “overmorrow” ... oh-ver-mawr-oh ... the day after tomorrow. (Dictionary.com)

Melt
Is it enough to think ahead
     to tomorrow or the overmorrow?
Perhaps we could think into next month
     or year or century, but what good 
          would that do?
The next moment ... the now, and now, and now,
     contains all we can absorb.
Moments creeping in from the past, or
     futures borrowed from imagination
          only replace our living.
We stand in our present like a caterpillared chrysalis,
     quivering, changing, held through time by grace.

Anne Selleck
Copyright 2019

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