An Age Ago
Like most small wild things
you’re hard to track
but this field’s full of paths
worn smooth by your feet running
to hidden places I once knew
when I belonged to your tribe.
In that distant age I too
was known as a swift child of the hills.
—Bruce Williamson
FIND A PICTURE OF YOURSELF AS A CHILD and put it into a really nice frame. Set it beside the other pictures of children that you keep on your desk at work or on the mantel or table at home. Then, whenever one of your colleagues or friends asks who's that new small person in the gallery, just say "That's my kid!" Or, better yet, tell them "That's my first child!"
