And there it
Was an adventure
A piece of
Your car hanging
Like a dead
Carcass of something
That you plowed
Over unable to
Move you surgically
Removed it with
Scissors and on
Our way we
Went happier because
We not you
Climbed the smallest
Mountain I’ve seen
I have never
Seen two birds
Bump into each
Other in flight
We were lucky
Then to be
Humans instead of
Birds weren’t we
And it came
As a surprise
A video call
From you after
A silent week
Like a river
Thawing under April
Sun the chatter
Flowed quietly as
Trickles at first
Then torrents of
Laughter and teasing
Awakened again alive
We seemed to
Grow back into
One another rolling
Like the majestic
River we are
The sky this
Morn is a
Sleepy white pale
Blue with rose
Quartz at horizon
Plane sounds like
Hot griddles hitting
Cold water even
The trees lack
Pop as though
They were painted
Saul back East
Hasn’t opened his
Eyes yet causing
All this drowsiness
A bird on
A fence wondering
Where to next
Like angels in
Heaven wondering which
Soul to save
Next
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 