25th High School Reunion

Image borrowed from Bing

25th High School Reunion

We come to hear the endings
of all the stories
in our anthology
of false starts:
how the girl who seemed
as hard as nails
was hammered
into shape;
how the athletes ran
out of races;
how under the skin
our skulls rise
to the surface
like rocks in the bed
of a drying stream.
Look! We have all
turned into
ourselves.

Linda Pastan

Posted over on the Writer's Almanac
"25th High School Reunion" by Linda Pastan, from Carnival Evening