Shearing

Watching Anita deadhead first lilies, then roses
I wonder if they hurt
The way we do
When family and friends
Money and jobs
Are taken from us

Well, we can count on winter
And, in the meantime
One can do worse than flower

Alan Cohen/Poet first/Then PCMD, teacher, manager, researcher, writer/Living a full varied life/To optimize time and influence/Deferred publication, wrote/Average 3 poems a month/For 60 years/Beginning now to share some of his discoveries/180 poems accepted for publication in the past two years/Married to Anita 44 years/in Eugene, OR. these past 13 happy years.