From the collection And Don’t Come Back, from 2021.
Doubled for Emphasis
Tonight I walk in the pale light of
the beautiful and beautiful vision of my heart
the moon and moon of green and fresh
fresh and green this one last summer
tangled in vines just above the horizon
11/2/20
This is lovely, Claudia, but with a melancholy feel in the one last summer.
Thank you. Yes, I am getting older and there are more things that happen for the last time for me going on, already (some I am happy to see ending, others, the opposite) and I think of friends and family for whom the one last summer has already passed, I can’t help thinking that one day it will be that for me too. I hope to enjoy the time before that, though, trying very hard to overlook the difficulties or the petty problems, and see the moon and green and today.
Yes, I understand. I know there are things I’ll never do again, too. . . .
I can’t say it any better than Merril did. (K)
One day there will be one last summer for all of us, though we will not know it, so I hope to make the most of time now and enjoy what I have been given. Depsite worries and health and sadness there is still the moon, and the green world.
Indeed there is.
The doubling is really effective. It’s emphatic and also mimics that thing our brains do when they are hyper-focused on something.
I hope I have not passed my one last summer but I think it is important now as that time gets closer, to focus on the daily life I have and know that I am living it.