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late spring

lovely healthy young and blooming lilac tree

arrayed as only trees know how

in quiet elegance projecting holy place

and such

beautiful peace

given to me and planted in the early fall five and three quarter years ago

after my sister died

friends at work seeing how much I was shaken how much cut to my core

decided the answer was new green life

life!

maybe someone somehow knew that all trees have always been and will always be

holy for me

I love this young lilac loved it at first sight

putting it here at the corner of the house with someone I love was my own perfect

service

young life

stout and strong enough to require good planting

a good gift to honor a living friend

and help him on his way in faithful

remembrance

and reverence for the much loved much missed reality of the

dead

the only saving answer really

lovely lovely

life

from Sue — 8 poems for my sister — Bill Eberle

June 7, 2013     © 2013, Bill Eberle