SUNDAY (and Monday)

Although there were plenty

of Sunday poems (afternoon

at Abigail’s gorgeous pond.

We swam first time this summer

French lamb chops for dinner.

Adirondack Kulfi ice cream.)

I did not poem not for no

good reason. Today though

because it is very hot

and because we are leaving

soon for Asbury Park

and because the kids

will meet us there ( hotel

with a pool) and because

Ahava will swim all day

and I am finishing my old friend

Doug Magee’s beautiful

new book SAVED and because

I just read Elizabeth Nonas

very good book Grace Period

(she makes Negronis) and because

life in all its crazy parts

this summer especially

because today is a

very good poem.