11/15

Not a simple morning, telling someone who did not know. Came back,

Re-raked in a high snit. Remember, over a year since had one of those.

You would laugh.

But, you see, this chore was mine alone to do this year, next year

may be different, but the doing, the carrying out of this deed this time

Needed doing alone.

Needed only you for company, and the swirling, whirling flight

Of starlings, whose undulating flights delighted you that last morning.

This too, I remember.