at 11 o’clock
each Wednesday
my phone reminds me of you
during the pandemic
it was our time
for a zoom call
Dad, you
and sometimes Joe,
we would gather
to talk
to laugh
to sometimes cry
you in your nursing home
Dad at his house
and Joe and I at home or school
my students had
library at 11 on Wednesdays
so I could come
when you died
suddenly of pneumonia
over two years ago
I didn’t have the heart
to delete
the Wednesday reminder
at the time
it somehow made your death
too real
so each Wednesday
my phone buzzes at 11:00
reminding me of you
