AMY KITCHENERS
ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS FOUNDATION
PRESENTS THE
2008 HONOR SCROLL WINNER

Dewell H. Byrd

DEWELL H. BYRD, 77, retired public school administrator, lives in Eureka, California among the redwoods. He was 2007 National Senior Poet Laureate Runner Up and 2007 California Senior Poet Laureate. He has four children, ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. His sign is Capricorn.

HOW SHE MOVES


Inside my vessel of endless days
I search the nooks and crannies
of yesteryear.

The memory of my first love
butterflies a teasing dance.
Mirages mingle.

Was it in the fat-egg month of June
when the moon drapes a cloud
across its face?

Was it where a lonely country lane
touches my road and the mailboxes
keep silent vigil?

Geese glide where crumbs of her laughter
linger like bubbles.
Ah! The river... The swimming hole...

When twilight fills my empty day
she moves to me, a flower's golden song,
warm honey.

Little by little memory diminishes
and any way I play this game
. . . it ends as it began: with love.



Dewell H. Byrd
Eureka, California