all those little boxes
today i signed up for medicare
he helped, because he is older than me,
and has already maneuvered the system
okay, truth be told, he did it for me
i like being taken care of . . .
the real work
And I am thinking: maybe just looking and listening
is the real work.
-Mary Oliver
sidewalk library
he pulls out a book from the sidewalk library
and tells us that it was one of his favorites as a child
for a brief moment, I am taken back to glow in the dark stars
plastered on bedroom ceilings
and filled with love and gratitude for the man he has become