Pairs

Four cormorants at Lake Padden today -- they may or may not be pairs, as the two in the water may just be waiting their turn for the posts -- but in any case, they provide a nice segue to the poignant poem featured yesterday in The Writer's Almanac.

Promissory Note

If I die before you
which is all but certain
then in the moment
before you will see me
become someone dead
in a transformation
as quick as a shooting star's
I will cross over into you
and ask you to carry
not only your own memories
but mine too until you
too lie down and erase us
both together into oblivion.

--Galway Kinnel, from Strong Is Your Hold
(Houghton Mifflin, 2006)

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