lookin’ ahead

figuring what I’ll wear for two weeks

in California. home and now-state of my daughter.

and her husband and their daughter;

my friends Eddie, Lonesome Al and the rest of them.

of us, because we were thick together.

the years, the sunshine. a pat on the back.

i’ll keep it simple. Warm dry air

and Mexican food.

we won’t go by or pass over the Golden Gate.

but to no surprise, i’ll think of it,

and our boats and the various points 

we’ve cruised around on the San Francisco Bay.