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What we would give,
all of us, for a balanced platter
of years to relish and lick clean.

He seems to wear
a luminosity of his own
or is it the yellow
sunlight slicing the
room like a triangle

Far, far away said
the Hagia Sophia,
the Holy Wisdom;
the empress Zoe and
Marilyn Monroe

In the fierce to-do of living
I want to be kind and generous
Yet edged and keen as a stiletto.

My mother’s idea of love was something
shy and pale, a caged thing, cautious, always
in the act of being caught at the edge of night

Marsha with her
teapot watered the plant
of sleeping Captain Dogbane.

As I sip tea, I notice
the cars and trucks on the distant
highway, going south, going north.

At the top of the rise, I wait
for this fate that arrives, unbidden.

Hurry home;
Someone you know
Turns the pages of an old book.

Drop what I did
and do the best china
and Grandma’s pie plate