May 1, 2020
By Mary Timberlake
We advance in this life by heartbeat,
like children playing Red Light / Green Light
on the lawn of an evening:
hear the cries of fear and delight
till darkness ends the game,
and the porch light calls us in.
Mary Timberlake lives in Princeton, N.J.
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