This week’s Poem Pick comes from Hayden Carruth. He currently resides with his wife, also a talented poet, Joe-Anne McLaughlin Carruth, and their pets Stacey and Smudgie atop a hill overlooking a valley near the small central New York village of Munnsville. Here's a good bio.
Alteration
You thought growing older
would be more of the same,
going a little slower,
walking a little lame.
But you knew, or you were a fool,
that alteration is what we keep;
tonight will not be the equal
of last night, even in sleep.
Hayden Carruth, from his collection Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey