Patagonia

 

I’ve always known you for a traveler — gypsy

soul, free-roaming spirit, frequent flyer,

the one who gives gravity the slip.

 

The night I met you, you were on your way

to paddle in Patagonia — the trip

of a lifetime and just another day

 

at the end of the world. I see you gliding

in your kayak, past the misty gray

mountains, with your heart as big as the sky.

 

                                                     for Barbara

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Brattleboro, Vermont

May 2020

 

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