The Gift
For Bobby Jack Nelson
Older, more generous,
We give each other hope.
The gift is ominous:
Enough praise, enough rope.
Source of the text - N. Scott Momaday, Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011, page 26.
TJB: Bless-&-damn epigram. In this miniature wisdom-verse with a great rhyme, who are “we” older than? Is there any gift that is not also a curse?
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