Looking around the room

THE NIGHT BEFORE

            --for Leah

Baseball in a couple of hours.

Grand children on floor, asleep

on air mattresses and cushions.

My wife and I practicing from the side,

our gray hair like banners,

while parents function as bridges

between discipline and play.

We walk a footpath beside the Deschutes

and I remember its wild rapids,

bringing my daughter here at 21,

celebrating in a raft, river running.

Dad

25 May 2019