Poet Naomi Replansky turned 102 this May. Here's a poem in honor of this event:
Trying to Paint Clouds
Trying to paint clouds,
I fix my feet to the ground.
O white travelers
with your umber bellies
rushing through
that blue neighborhood!
So much speed up above, I spin backwards down below.
So much change up above,
my brush is outraced
every swirling second.
From The Dangerous World, 1994
