Hiding from The Now
written by: Arlene J Placer
Behind the row of white bark trees, he sits.
Hidden.
Even though the leaves are green, he sees brown and yellow, orange and red.
A different time holds him in remembrance.
Behind the line of trees, he hides.
Sheltered from the now.
But not from the past.
Living it over and over.
Those soft memories blend and become round and not sharp.
Behind the bark, behind the lane, he sits.
No dropped leaves surround and cushion him.
Harsh, hard ground to remind him of the now and not of soft memories.
Of easy days.
Life is not the same behind the lane of white bark.
Of white trees.
A woman of 83 who only discovered writing in her 70s. Short stories, haiku, and fanfiction.
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