The Plan

My old friend, the owner
of a new boat, stops by
to ask me to fish with him,

and I say I will--both of us
knowing that we may never
get around to it, it may be

years before we're both
idle again on the same day.
But we make a plan, anyhow,

in honor of friendship
and the fine spring weather
and the new boat

and our sudden thought
of the water shining
under the morning fog.

Wendell Berry, Kentucky Poet,
from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry