3/31

This day a friend celebrates her birthday and 
I sit within a family circle surrounded with good
Food and kugel.

This I sit in an aerie of a house, an osprey' view
Water all around. It is beautiful and tomorrow 
I will paint

But this afternoon I sit with friends and their family,
See kindness, and joy, and sorrow, see the dearness 
In all these.

3/19

Been awhile. It is not as of you aren't in my mind,

Always you are. But that the aloneness of me

Needs center stage.

It is not so quick a process this going from

We to me. Requires mental juggling, not always been

Willing to embrace,

Been willing to not only except the changes

But eventually to embrace. For now? Willing, just

To be willing. 

3/6

Again I sit a plane without you, as last night, 

I sat with our friends, watching them dance.

Another kindly asked, 

The first, I realized, I'd dance since....

And I was fine until he asked what you did

He'd no idea.

Nor I, that so far out it still hit hard. But,

He was kind, so I could quietly, carefully,

Still my soul.

3/5

Would that you were here this night

With old friends in their new place but

You are not

Not here to laugh with me at this absurd 

Delightful show. Not here to enjoy the music

Dance with me