Sometimes it is simple;
a quiet street, weathered stone and brick,
air so fine it could trick the senses
through which six decades have slipped
like beads through a child’s fingers—
the convent rookery and the light
that bleeds through.
All as we left it, and still here,
trailing our suitcase home.
Day’s End
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