To The New Year 2012

From the Foster-Fluharty Farm; Matthew Fluharty

from Sabbaths, 2005

VI.

I tremble with gratitude

for my children and grandchildren

who take pleasure in one another.

At our dinners together, the dead

enter and pass among us

in living love and in memory.

And so the young are taught.

          – Wendell Berry

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