What Love Looks Like
Man in my class so many years ago
at the Goddard Riverside Senior Center man in my class named Michael
large and soft our whole class
cleaned his apartment he had one sweater
light blue so many empty pizza boxes
he'd wanted to be an opera singer
auditioned all his life never got even one part
Michael sat next to a former Jesuit priest
named Pat at an audition to sing on Kol Nidre
and although he didn't get the part, again,
he got Pat.