AGAIN

Picking my way down
             through the granite mountains
                                   of time,
   actual hours, minutes, seconds,
           welcome handholds, tiniest crevices,
                                                       as I begin to slip,
                    back to shadowed nightmares
of youth,
           to terror-drenched dreams of childhood,
       and  again I am
                              falling,
                                     falling,
           
                                                  falling......


In anticipation of my fiftieth birthday,
December 18, 1995


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