Between the linen flattened light
A scarlet hour pressed from flight;
The stem remembers wind and dare
Yet rests as if it lived on air
A label holds a date and place
Archivists of tender grace;
They trap the passing not to bind
But help the seeing help the mind
I press one moment of my own
A look that made my courage grown;
Not to refuse the river’s run
To honor where its gift begun
Pages close with cedar breath
No theft of time no cage of death;
The living moves the record stays—
Two faithful friends two needed ways