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Picking my way down
through the granite mountains
of time,
actual hours, minutes, seconds,
welcome handholds, tiniest crevices,
as I begin to slip,
back to shadowed nightmares
of youth,
to terror-drenched dreams of childhood,
and again I am
falling,
falling,
falling......
In anticipation of my fiftieth birthday,
December 18, 1995