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<p class="MsoNormal">I really enjoyed this poem—especially the last 2 lines.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At Sixty-Five<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Henri Cole - 1955-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It was all so different than he expected.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For years he’d been agnostic; now he meditated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For years he’d dreamed of being an artist living abroad;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">now he reread Baudelaire, Emerson, Bishop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He’d never considered marriage . . .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Still, a force through green did fuse.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, he wore his pants looser.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No, he didn’t do crosswords in bed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No, he didn’t file for Social Security.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, he danced alone in the bathroom mirror,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">since younger men expected generosity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Long ago, his thesis had been described as promising,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“with psychological heat and the consuming<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">will of nature.” Now he thought, “This then is all.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On the rooftop, in pale flickering moonlight,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he pondered the annihilated earth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the pond, half-a-mile across was not<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">too far to swim because he seemed to be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">going toward something. Yes, the love impulse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">had frequently revealed itself in terms of conflict;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but this was an old sound, an austere element.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, he’d been no angel and so what . . .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, tiny moths emerged from the hall closet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, the odor of kombucha made him sick.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, he lay for hours pondering the treetops,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the matriarchal clouds, the moon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though his spleen collected melancholy trophies,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">his imagination was not impeded.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Copyright © 2022 by Henri Cole. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 5, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Henri Cole<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956 and raised in Virginia.<o:p></o:p></p>
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