Tai food soon

at last a warm evening ...

the first of hopefully many.

old downtown behind Main.

Meri, Catherine and i take a table.

 

birds overhead call each other.

making a point.  put on a show.

i know they do.  it's how they go.

as water lightly rolls down the river.

the birds crowd each other.

that's a seagull's life.

 boats are coming in;

the afternoon's over.

The new day

 Ride on to ohio. take the highway.

Hello daughter.  been two years.

so talk-fill the gaps. Meri can handle her end.

you're speedy, i'm slack; loving every day.

 

done a winter's worth of waiting for you.

it's swell.  we know each other well.

 Looking ahead, We'll be warm

tomorrow ... like toast, they say.

if we didn't have this pandemic

we could hug. but i'm an old man

afraid of catching the bug.

so we do what we can.