Frank
Cavano is a retired physician who has a habit of writing poetry when
inspired by powerful feelings, thoughts, or images precipitated by his
own experiences or those of others. Most of his work touches on the
experience of being human, healing, and spirituality. His words have
been published in numerous places in both literary and medical
contexts. Here Frank channels a voice from another place and era, and
the message that resonates today is that time is ever passing and won’t
slow for children nor their elders. La plus ca change …

Oh, how the days thunder by–
buffalo in a painted sky.
Nor pause they now to hear
the child’s cry
or seek the story
in an old, wrinkled brow.