Troy Urquhart

This Is How it Begins.

It begins.
Simply, or not.

It begins
as a word or a phrase
or a glance.

Or a sentence.

Frost would say
“it begins with a lump
in the throat.”
I would have written
“ends.”

But that was earlier
before the length of life
grew long enough
for me to know.

That sometimes
it ends like this.