Poems

PRESENT TENSE

By Ann C. Stewart

From the September 1972 issue of The Christian Science Journal

One dry leaf,
how it clings!
Curling in upon itself—
beckoning—
but I will turn away.

One cannot grasp at memories
and still be free
to cup the promise of a bud.
It takes both hands for that
and all of love.

Ann C. Stewart

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