Erasing Time and Space

I don’t know why we are here on the edge of mortality,

and I hope when we leave these bodies

we find each other

and live in a place of poetry and music

with a bit of laughter and humor

and a few other things.

—BDW

In the Trinity Alps of California in 1963, a shy young member of a wilderness camp Work Crew (K) was swept away by the attentions of the Water Safety Instructor (B). Their passion that began that summer under trees and on mountain trails was to endure sixty years of separation. Decades later, K began looking for her lost beloved. In the winter of 2023, she found her, and they immediately renewed their old and undiminished love with phone calls and letters. Reunited now in their home in the woods, K tells stories in poems, as she has done most of her life. These are a few, in which time and space are erased by the power of deep feelings shared by two who remember and who delight in making new memories.