THE INSTANT OF YOUR BIRTH

 

THE INSTANT OF YOUR BIRTH

    ...all we have--

        unless

            things the imagination feeds upon,

        startle us anew.

            William Carlos Williams

Karen walks into the room,

interrupting this poem,

Thank you for my

birthday cheese slicer,

before I’ve written it--

the instant we chose

each other hadn’t yet

been told us, how angels

interrupted our very lives.

Jim

My love here on your birthday

2 January 2022