Age

Three ages (or more) all at once

My beloved claims

I am channeling

My inner twelve year old.

I am glad I am not six.

I think of Lily Tomlin

Sitting

In the oversized rocking chair.

I think I am

Possibly three

Instead

Of twelve

Or even six.

Sometimes it is possible

To be three ages

Or more

All at once.

Up for grabs

Turning 60 on Palm Sunday. I think it will be better than turning 33 on Good Friday when my marriage was collapsing. I am definitely in a better place these days. The fifties were good, all in all. The sixties are up for grabs.

What is it about entering

A new decade?

This life

Lived in the tens?

If we lived in Base 12

I would still be a few years off

From 60.

In the last ten years

I made more changes

Than in the fifty years prior.

I became a proponent

Of the fifties

An advocate for life

Rewritten

Rediscovered

Re-purposed.

The sixties?

The sixties

Are up for grabs.