1972 Recalled: An Older but Not yet Old Photo

Living on the grounds
Of a State Hospital,
Working with kids
Who someone decided
Needed to be there;
Our own child yet
Unborn
And my hair,
As you can clearly see,
Intentionally
Unshorn.

The 60's had passed
But we remained in them
For some time
To come,
Bringing a handful
Of that decade with us
And leaving behind
Some.
We had lived through them
Without succumbing completely
To the ravages of
It's temptations,
Taking some parts of
That decade
"To Go"
In our individual
And conjoint
Manifestations.

Graduate school
Came later
And since then,
A resume tells it
Most clearly.
I moved on to
Becoming who I
Have become
And hope to keep growing
Both myself
And roses with
My not-so-green
Thumb.

AM radio had become
Obsolete
And sounds we once learned
Were vulgar
Had begun to sound sweet.
At the time,
Together for only five years,
With our forty-fifth coming up next
It seems incredible
That we still have
Moving gears
And hopefully
A good many
More meaningful years.

Scanned and saved
Into a virtual life
Where it can be viewed
And considered
By myself
And my wife.
One slice
Of an ever-expanding pie
For she and I.