After I Have Flown

1) MR B is suffering as a result of withdrawal from a prescription medication.

2) Avoid letting a doctor get you hooked on anything, my Readers!

3)                                       Variations

                                          1

There is a certain strangeness

In seeing that silver ship

Rush across the sky

Over these old trees,

Trees that sought the sun

Before an engine could

Propel a man unto

The place of his desire.

2

For all those weeks I wait

And I do not go walk

On hills among the trees

That outlived other loves

Long before I loved you.

                                                    3

This is no age for romance.

Morning will not forget

One green flash of light

As your eyes set.

                                                     4

(You dance so smooth and glide

Along the quickest move

As artless as the bird

That sails between the trees

Upon the old hill's side.)

                                                     5

The bird has disappeared.

The airplane's roar is gone.

The trees remain alone.

Until the hill is sheared

After we all have flown.