You wanted so much more
Than what the cosmos could allot

Expecting
Tomorrow's dawn
In yesterday's shadow, and

You, a child of daddy's penchants for
Spoiling eggs before they
Were prepared to hatch,
Watched geese flying homeward north
For the warmer solstice, swoop down upon
Your perfect doorstep
Just to say hello

Throughout similar
June winters
Decades later
I observed a limp body sag from stools
Propped lower than any bar
Was ever constructed

I felt cigarette ash
Drift from plaster skies,
Shoveled inherited sin
Down a tangled throat'¦

Now I stumble over
Stranger islands,
Native dogs plot deception
With the magpies'I step heavily
Blind of their efforts

Graced by meadows of forgiving sunflowers
Opening my arms
I bathe in their radiance

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