“The Light” by Fay Ann Dillof

A poem by alum Fay Ann Dillof (poetry, ’15) appears at The Cortland Review:

We send the kids out to the swings
in the barn. Ask them, please, to go away, go,
we’ll join you soon, but soon is not a thing
they trust. They need us now. Their now
not the same as ours in middle age

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