<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Old Friends<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Each a mentor</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">a <i>sherpa</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">a pathway</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">a wilderness </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Old friends now</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">elders in gradual </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">departure into</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">deeper layers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">undiscovered edges</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">shifting shorelines</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">a kind of breathing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">a sort of threading</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">in and out</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">in and out</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">weaving each other</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">into living fabric</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Clare Morris</div></div></body></html>