I often lose things
earrings one example
lost them even when I didn’t
have the excuse of a mask.
I often lose things a letter
I intended to hold onto forever
yellow pen did I loan it to someone
books that disappear
a fork I like
and there are days
not often but still
days when I lose poems.
Though I start them
easily enough:
Sol was worth
describing
but for days I didn’t
describe him because
I didn’t know
how to make him a poem
don’t know enough
of the details of Sol
except that he was
my father’s college roommate
married a woman no one liked
even Sol but he stayed married
to her until she left him
for a wealthy surgeon who
specialized in hearts which was
easy for him to do said his
ex-wife Elaine because he
didn’t have one himself.
And what happened to Sol?
If I hadn’t lost my Sol poem
I would say he found someone
a lot better than Elaine
a woman named Rhoda
and Sol and Rhoda decided
even though it was 1968
and no one did that then
to move to Oaxaca and open
a small charming guest house
and I even visited them once
and made them a poem.
Good for Sol and Rhoda.
Guest house in Oaxaca sounds inviting, and if not the 60s, NOW!