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# Here to There
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- Published: 2026-01-27T15:37:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T17:03:57.000Z
- Description: Dan Fitzgerald
- Author: Dan Fitzgerald
- Tags: Poetry, Arts

> A piece of string

> outside a cage,

> a song heard when a child was two,

> a face seen waving

> from a train.

> A man walks back from a cliff,

> having seen the fall.

> A girl, a boy, a mother, a father, a toy,

> a gun, some money in a safe.

> A ring, a card, a tune on a radio,

> a regret never to be repeated,

> a town, an ocean, a mountain

> in the sky.

> Some memory, some token for a day.

> A dream to come true, a wish on a falling star,

> a ticket, a letter, a note

> from a teacher.

> Just a little, just a taste,

> just a promise with some worth,

> a little something to keep or share,

> a little something to get from

> here to there.

### Dan Fitzgerald is a retired printer and a poet. He lives in Pontiac, Illinois, tending to home and garden.