A Little Emily on a Sad Monday Morning

Exultation is the going

Of an inland soul to sea,

Past the houses -- past the headlands --

Into deep Eternity --

Bred as we, among the mountains,

Can the sailor understand

The divine intoxication

Of the first league out from land?

**I am posting this for my friend and colleague Sue Marcum, who was murdered one week ago today. She was someone with a lot of joy and energy, so I thought of this.