Inspired by a photograph from
Heather Cox Richardson’s
Letters from an American
(July 9, 2023)
The Aging of Water
This mirror still flows,
this glass still reflects,
but it has become
clouded with murk,
rippled with time and gravity,
wrinkled to the sky and
to my bespectacled eyes.
I still feel young,
though my years are showing,
I still think
long into the future,
though my seasons are numbered
and the circles concentric
grow every moment,
slowing toward
the grasses of the shoreline
and settling into
a glassy stillness.
| Copyright © 2023 by Michael E. (Maik) Strosahl Maik was born and raised in Moline, Illinois, and has written poetry since youth. After moving to Indiana and daring to participate in a poetry reading, he joined its poetry society and began his search for the state’s local groups, occasionally starting groups in communities where he found none. In 2018, he relocated to Jefferson City, Missouri, and in July 2023 returned to his roots in the Quad Cities, where he continues to search for kindred spirits to inspire and draw energy from. |
Maik, I still haven’t had a reply from Heather Cox Richardson about displaying her photo with your poem. But it’s just as well that our readers will have to take the link we provided to go see it, because that way they might stop to read a few of her “Letters from an American” and discover what they’ve been missing.
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