Setting Up House

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Setting Up House

©2014 Susan Noyes Anderson

It was early days, year one.

Two dreamers at the

gate of wedded bliss.

We found a space that suited.

Used brick. Wood floors. Old,

to give us history.

Weekends we combed farm towns,

haggled with owners over

breakfronts and buffets.

Antiquity beguiled us.

We refinished, polished,

gloried in the sheen.

Secured green plants: fern daughters,

ivy sons. And pussy willows,

naming them like pets.

Our life was magic. Magic.

Oh the innocence,

those days we wandered free.

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Classic Walking

CLASSIC WALKING

©Susan Noyes Anderson

My body is electric when

I'm walking to Vivaldi;

I shed years and pounds in minutes

moving to Rossini's beat.

Every step inspires new feeling;

I am on my way to healing,

floating on a starry ceiling

when Ludwig directs my feet.

I go marching with Franz Schubert;

Haydn is my soul's delight.

With Tchaikovsky I'm in heaven;

I could stroll with him all night.

When I trip the light fantastic

with Wolfgang, it's orgiastic.

Walks with Bach are more scholastic,

for the subtle appetite.

I'm a mover and a shaker,

overcome with joie de vivre.

Gliding up the steps with Brahms

is sheer, symphonic ecstasy.

What an unexpected treasure!

I could not begin to measure

the unmitigated pleasure

classic walking brings to me.

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