A Few Good Words
here we are
to describe grateful
to talk about birds
whose names we don't know
and bright colored mushrooms because
of rain and because mushrooms
bloom when they want to bloom
colors you don't know for mushrooms
sun feels more sun
because of rain and yesterday Delores
turned 86 she ate cake and cake
beautiful as Delores and because
Ahava is coming today and we
have sunflowers and eggs with orange yolks
and tabouli and Sharice Davis could be
the first Native American lesbian
congresswoman in Kansas and I finished
David Sedaris last night (David Sedaris!!) and we
will buy white peaches and know this day
unlike any other day just like every other day
so full and rich of how extraordinary life
life can be if you are lucky and if you are breathing
just breathing and if it is summer and if you have
a pen or a pencil and a few good words.