Special times and places link themselves together / within my memory like a string of precious pearls. / Why so? Why this or that and not another? / Yet they persist and wear the passing years....
My brother had a sweater he liked to wear.
He wore it every day and everywhere
until it shrunk and hardened in the suds of life,
but then he gained another, new for old
Fluttering wings and beak with dew-kissed leaf — / an awesome sight when God remembered Noah. / On desert sand in shade of juniper, depressed Elijah / saw a special food delivery by ravens.