EIGHTS AND TWOS FOR LINDSEY ON HER 82d

Eastside Road, June 10, 2017—

which fell in fact on the seventh

Great day!

Though the days grow short: busy suns
      rise, set
as the hours used to do, and now
      years gone,

most of them with you, and better
      for that.
(Of course I can only hope you
      agree.)

Never more beautiful or more
      graceful
whether patient or not, gentle
      friend and
sharp critic sharing this long life
      of ours.

Let the whole world know how much I
      love you.