To My Sister Barbara --
Climbing the crooked stairs
of the secret passage
I feel Hawthorne beside me
Salem Custom House
Nathaniel's office
overlooking history
At Walden Pond
time stands still
only the wind blows eternal
Louisa May's desk
nailed before the narrow widow
a writer's shrine
The Fruitlands Commune
bore little fruit
except Louisa's stories
Scholars congregated
Emerson's study --
still true
Legions of giants
corner of Concord graveyard
genius rests in peace
Published in POETS INTERNATIONAL
India January 2009
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