Later. Then.

So had I thought

Mirage Oases
by Kay Ryan


First among places
susceptible to trespass
are mirage oases

whose graduated pools
and shaded grasses, palms
and speckled fishes give
before the lightest pressure
and are wrecked.

For they live
only in the kingdom
of suspended wishes,

thrive only at our pleasure
checked.

The end of all our exploring

Intense moonlight

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago
no one mentioned it.
-- Coco Chanel

Search for tomorrow

If you must

Yearning