for Peggy

. 

 .

Plot keeps us moving

conflicts, obstacles

from concept to theme.

Show of our qualities,

characteristic strategies

how people change

dramatically, comedically,

through relationship or revelation

or how we resolutely refuse

to change despite ardent

catalysts.

Sitting in your kitchen

drinking wine and sharing plotlines

leading to the lives we share

here in safe eternity

I feel your joys, moments of doubt,

your poignant tragedies and resilient reclamations

Your brilliant smile, contagious laugh,

ebullient embrace carry me beyond

enduring sorrows.

A fallen sparrow nurtured,

a flower coaxed to glory,

a simple girlhood story spanning wars,

historic empathies.  Cuttings

cultured from days before language

continue chains

of synchronicity, plotlines leading me

to find

our brief exchange

Strands of interactive dna

move us forward into more complete

meeting.

 

***

 

Sitting here, in the cluttered fan-cooled kitchen

while a storm-brewing wind…