Vistas & Byways - Spring 2022
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          With a Theme of Lucky - Unlucky

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​We sit on the cabin porch and rock,
recalling what these two years have stolen.
Precious friendships, adventure,
peace of mind.
Our innocent, thoughtless trajectory
through space and time.
 
We listen to the wind in the pines rise
from whisper to roar,
then subside.
A lone frog sends its “Ribbit”
over the dark pond,
Hope rippling out into the universe.
 
“I am here.
 Where are you?”
 
After a few unanswered minutes, you say,
“Someone should kiss that frog.”
 
I squeeze your hand.
Thirty-eight years together,
but why count?
Each moment a signal sent,
and, when we’re lucky--
answered.
 
Again, the frog croaks.
Silence.
A third call.
 
And then what we hope for--
another frog responds.
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  • CONTENTS
    • IN THIS ISSUE
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Bay Area Stew
    • Inside OLLI
    • Photo Essays
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ARCHIVES
    • Fall 2021
    • Spring 2021
    • Fall 2020
    • Spring 2020
    • Fall 2019
    • Spring 2019
    • Fall 2018
    • Spring 2018
    • Fall 2017
    • Spring 2016
    • Fall 2015