CONVERSATION ON GRATITUDE
DESCENDING BURROUGHS MOUNTAIN
WITH MY BROTHER AND SISTER
--for Chuck and Vonnie
Oh, thank you, but not from me!
Gratitude comes from Chuck!
No, no, I got it from you.
That can’t be. It was given to me.
How could I not know that, Vonnie.
How would I know.
You send me gratefulness
every day in the mail. Take this trail.
Three siblings passing on the gift,
like the desert fathers
not knowing how to start a fight,
beginning with the brick.
Just say, The brick is mine.
OK, it’s mine. No, it’s mine.
OK, you take it.
Jim
22 September 2022
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