For Frances—Who Lately Found Her Granddaughter Alone in the Back Bedroom Gone

 



For Frances—Who Lately Found

            Her Granddaughter Alone

            in the Back Bedroom Gone

 

            Gone Forever –

 

Somehow,

when you take

flight I am not

 

watching at least

not close

enough but the green

 

that eased off

the field

between me

 

and you is graced

with lupines

and wind raises

 

phrases in the grasses

only you can hear

somehow

 

when you

take flight

the green is the light

 

we are

both

reaching for 


and somehow

it is a jesus

in each of us

  

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