1984-04-29

           Today I was shaving
           and putting in my contacts
           and Chris sat on the sink watching
           like he's done a lot these last two months.
           Suddenly, from this random behavior,
           came pattern and purpose.

           If I were making a fire or tanning leather
           or stringing a bow or gathering herbs
           there...
           there he would sit, receptive
           to what he would need to live;
           the transmission of learning
           parent to progeny.

           Wolf cubs, seals, monkeys and man
           all the same...small eyes learning.

           And in our plastic electronic world
           where this has little validity
           the instinct still lives.
           he looks to me to show him the way.

                        gallagher
                        apr 29, 84
                        San Juan Capistrano

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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