A Meeting

A Meeting

In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead or changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: “How you been?”
He grins and looks at me.
“I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees.”

~ Wendell Berry

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One Response to A Meeting

  1. Michele says:

    It is I who have changed,
    grown strange to what I was.

    Very nice…

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