A Poem for Julie, or What Hope Looks Like, Again
Even though happy is not
Peter's middle name (even though
he is happy enough) beautiful music
makes him happy. Yesterday
home from a concert,
where we had vowed not to discuss
recent appointments, where we decided
To Take a Break and to listen
when we came home we continued to listen
knowing music is part of who we are
music in the No Matter What
column of life knowing that music
is not only memory but now music one of those
unalterable parts of life that can not be taken away
we can hear it and hear it
we came home and remembered how
so many years ago we listened
to Mikis Theodorakis on the island of Patmos
and because of the miracle of the internet
it took only minutes
to find Mikis Theodorakis, again