Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Sunday, June 26, 2022
rapid rain runoff
The all night rain continued
Into the late morning hours
Abating just as I arrived down the hill
Unsure how to cross the torrent of a brook
Coming to check on the cabin opposite
Where years ago I enjoyed overnight stays
Showing its age waiting on the other side
For when it might be occupied again
Stepping into the brown water flooding past
Carrying the rapid rain runoff rising fast
Reaching near the top of my tall rubber boots
As I inch my way carefully testing the depth
Turning back not risking injury from a fall
Since I can see from here the cabin is intact
And the green ash tree next to it is alive
Spared for now from the ash borer infestation
The flow of energy surging past excites me
Watching the roiling surface bubbling up
Seeing the standing wave crests churn
Swept along over the rushing waterfall
This cabin represents a past life
A familiar place we once set foot
Vacant now and inaccessible today
But full of personal memories
Saturday, June 25, 2022
those who will come after
The surgery will be done on day two
To demonstrate the new improved technique
To the other neurosurgeons in attendance
There to learn how in a four day course
My youngest daughter's name doesn't appear
On the agenda for day two
But she will be the one on the table
With the endoscope inside her brain
After traveling all the way across the country
To the one place that does this operation
Hoping to be cured of her acromegaly
After her first surgery failed to achieve remission
She agreed to let the operation be observed
Thinking of those who will come after
Who will need the same pituitary tumor surgery
That they might get it somewhere nearby
As someone used to being observed
As a teacher herself of school children
She trusts her neurosurgeon’s hands
Performing under watchful eyes
Glad for the opportunity to help out
Even as she contends with a difficult diagnosis
Facilitating education to benefit others
Because she is that selfless good person
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