Advice on Dying


from the ABC set Viva Pathways

Face the open window, make collages of clouds
Add lovely garden things like fuzzy felt
In this, your second infancy

Wake to a plume of starlings or a finch
on moss dark walls where shadows collapse
into wishing wells

Draw pictures in your head of all your years
Taste English plums that bring them rushing back
Until wood-doves sing your lullaby

Currents from another place, soon will tug
But as you ebb from this, your final summer
Let your last breath be inwards

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