Age

Age is an elemental loneliness
for knowledge of the end about to be
is inescapable, even mountains
and the sea start to seem a bit flimsy

and the blue of sky and the whites of cloud
and the gold of sun not to mention staunch trees
begin to be but  filmy drapery
that will disappear as they now appear

what to make of this, that's the inner crust,
practi…