When the Time Comes
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My epitaph should readI was surprised by grace.It bore no face,only radiance and joy.
Incise the words on stone,or better, in your heart,and, to please me, sketchtwo birds to sit within the text.
Please write this down. "I neverexpected such song. It was,but it was not, orioles singingin the orchard of His grace."
Jean L. Connor began writing poems after retiring from a long career as a librarian in New York State. Her first volume of poems, A Cartography of Peace, and second, A Hinge of Joy, both published by Passager Books (2005 and 2009), reflect her passionate eye for natural wonders, and draw on the clarity of vision developed through a lifelong meditative practice. She lives and writes, now into her nineties, at Wake Forest retirement community in Shelburne, Vermont.
