Miller, Errol

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Volume 18Issue 2 Spring/Summer Article 176-15-1999Poem for the 7th DecadeErrol MillerFollow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westviewPart of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Photography Commons, and the PoetryCommonsThis Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals atSWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westviewby an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For moreinformation, please contact phillip.fitzsimmons@swosu.edu.Recommended CitationMiller, Errol (1999) "Poem for the 7th Decade," Westview: Vol. 18 : Iss. 2 , Article 17.Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol18/iss2/17Poem for the 7th Decadeby Errol MillerYou could ask me where I've been.A song for the evaporation of the old folks at home?Coming back around, across the Blue Mountains, to Higher Ground, I sense a sense of place...So why not write it out.The coastal waters here are pretty.Sasha, My Lovely One, assists me on the Inland Sea of Change.Listen, there are dark roads ahead, beautiful adobe houses, Southwestern ladders.Of course my ballroom words will endure, spinning, spinning, spinning, for it is a long way home & I will need company for comfort.But what about springtime, the dancing there?I know it is a sacred song, given away in ceremony.Meanwhile, coffee simmers on wood cookstoves, I hold in common all creation with mankind, I have a long list of hopes & dreams, a cryptic compass acting up.24 W E S T V I E W

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