MomsBook_asof9.18.17

Perspective
“He’s giving Sue
the summer salad plates.
Remember them,
yellow with a band of grey?”
Remember them?
Was there ever such a moment
in our lives when we had time
for dining on a terrace,
for being waited on
and served sweet lettuce,
cool and green,
on summer salad plates,
yellow
with a band of grey?
Here, it’s wintertime;
the trees stand stark
and black above the snow.
A young man lost in drugs
leans hard against the elm
across the street.