Mark Turbyfill

From “Journeys and Discoveries”

LIFE is more sweet than I

Knew: the shifted scene

Less wavered, more trimmed with light,

Than the years before.

Look down. People pass over the ice

As a file of thin ghosts creep,

And fade beyond a hill.

You, and you, and you—

Small souls, shrinking away.

And you, and you, and you,

Bearing lights in your hands,

Approaching eternally….. Life is

More sweet than I knew.