YOUR PLACE OR MINE?

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Your Place or Mine?

I drop by daily (physically or

metaphysically) soaking in spiritual

(or maybe emotional) presence (here & now),

this place and you (toad, turtle, lady slipper,

chipmunk, cardinal, cattails, buttonbush,

butterfly, fox, fawn, firefly, dragonfly,

fringed polygala,…) who live your entire life

(short though that may be -- compared

to only my time so far) in this locale;

still, when we chance to meet, I reflect upon

who is visiting whom(?) until I settle on this

(erstwhile conclusion):  we are (all of us)

merely guests in this place

for a tiny slice of time