Elegy for an Older Sister
For Cathie Jo 1949-1972
i.
After the day you died
I went to a mountain lake
all warm and piney
and as I floated in the gentle water
transfixed between earth and sky
I thought of you dying
just the plain sorrow of it
and of how it would never end
ii.
And one day
I was older
than you'd ever be
you would never again
be older than me
© 1984 J.L.Stanley
