FOR ANNE IN SACRAMENTO, NEW YEAR'S EVE, 2020

 

FOR ANNE IN SACRAMENTO, NEW YEAR’S EVE, 2020

After-images dissolving in snow-melt

assisted by salt guaranteed to break up

drive-way concrete, this year,

but for joined hands

of your mother and father

together after 62 years, restored

by your eyes arrive yesterday,

saying, Send my card to California.

I send you Karen’s quilts wrapping

six grandchildren, Covid’s gift

of time to quarantined art.

Egyptian cotton threads

bind fabric in polarized winter.

A daughter shapes all that will be told.

New Year Blessings,

Jim & Karen

New year’s Eve.