Led
Lehnert, Richard
Led It comes the day you turn 48, hiking with an old friend. She keeps asking which trail, your birthday after all, choose, until you say What makes me happy is being here, following...
...In fact, what you say is Wherever you want...
...It's my birthday...
...This is what I want...
...She keeps asking which trail, your birthday after all, choose, until you say What makes me happy is being here, following you...
...She goes there as you stop, look out over cloud-strummed ridges, laugh to admit what you've feared knowingyou want women to lead, choose the route, method, destination, where to live, city or country, children or not, the house to raise them in, colors to paint it, where tables chairs money go, what garden dug where how, everything important to them-how 48 years you've feared this man led by women, and have just now stopped where all along they take you...
...Richard Lehnert...
Vol. 129 • October 2002 • No. 18
