Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

When I dream, I am ageless.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan

Only of one thing I am sure:/ when I dream/ I am always ageless.

To a life that seizes/ Upon content,/ Locality seems/ But accident.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.