Diminution

by Frank William Finney

Sunset streaks
the old guy’s eyes.

The boneyard
beckons night.

The youngbloods
with their maladies

haunt all his daughter’s
waking hours:

She stays up late
to hear them prate

while he who trod
the mountain tops

shrinks shadows
down the hill.

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