Strange How You Stay<\/p>\n
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Strange how you may stay in one place\u2014
\nSay a house facing a stand of alders\u2014
\nand yet are carried forward,<\/p>\n
stay in one place but not in that time,
\nnot in the years that meant so much to you,
\nthat were your happiest years,<\/p>\n
how you are helplessly carried onward.<\/p>\n
It has come hard to me, this knowledge,
\nI have had to practice to do it\u2014<\/p>\n
to swallow silently the losses while I hold close
\nwhat the heart has claimed.<\/p>\n
Now the trees have entered their winter silence.
\nIn the garden, one foolhardy yellow rose
\nIs blooming still.<\/p>\n
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Dorothy Trogdon has lived on Orcas Island since 1985. \u00a0Previously she and her family lived in Spokane for 25 years. \u00a0“Strange How You Stay” is from her first full collection, Tall Woman Looking,<\/em> published by Blue Begonia Press this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strange How You Stay Strange how you may stay in one place\u2014 Say a house facing a stand of alders\u2014 and yet are carried forward, stay in one place but not in that time, not in the years that … Continue reading