van gogh

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In light of Justin moving so recently to Boulder, I wanted to share a piece of prose that I wrote for him on July 9,2006

Justin

You were once
the child
steering your own
jewel
river boat

Peter and the Wolf
chased you
along the rivers
shore
of
deep imagination

The oars
of adolescence
fraught with
your being
handed a
family’s sadly
leaky boat

The college years
when you
were not
spared
the necessary weight
of a
deeply broken heart
both
Julia and Marco
swept
under
the river’s surface
One taken
by life
and
One
by death

Your present
watery
Van Gogh
years
of the thrill
and passion
of floating
artistically and
precariously
along
the river’s edge
of
no guarantees

Row, row
row your boat
gently down the
stream
your heart’s buoyancy
will sail you
into all
the days of your life.

---Mom