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# Wiggle and Jump
- URL: https://www.yacubdavidsmith.com/wiggle-and-jump/
- Published: 2026-10-30T19:47:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T19:47:11.000Z
- Author: yacub david smith
- Tags: Poetry, A Long Walk to Autumn

The moon, the early hours,  
breaking through   
swift-moving clouds,  
the north like day   
is calling us,  
as autumn chill  
presses the brow.  
  
Sixty years pass,  
beat down like raindrops,  
fill a bucket  
that's never full.  
Still we rise  
each new morning,  
laugh and cry,  
wrapped warm in wool.

The leaves may fall  
while children slumber,  
branches low  
release their loads,  
we wiggle and jump  
through pools of light,  
like weary farmhands  
we ebb and flow—

As champagne pours,  
we flush out fear,   
a thousand doubts  
we hide inside—

The moon and  
north wind wait,  
patient,  
until the carousel stops—  

October 29, 2026  
A day after my love turned 60