after days of
billowing gray
sheets
and mist saddened rain
my pink rosette
unfolds
swells to red
opening petals
to his
sun
saturday
you are lovely
in your late morning robe
my ears have forgotten alarm clocks exist
invited to the table
by a red rosebush
i have tea with my closest ghosts
remembering
god lives in your mother’s kitchen
blueberry bagels are making the tangerines suspicious
i tell them julia child credited her longevity to red meat and gin
a cherry tree trial convenes beyond the window
the robin in the nest
just confessed
she was mae west
in another life
he brings me roses
i don’t deserve
and then has the audacity
to argue the point
with kisses