#2: Asssemblage

"House Sparrows" by Martha deJong-Lantik (Flickr)

Let the day begin

with carefully cut carrots,

celery, tomato, garbanzo beans,

black olives for contrast,

and sweet corn. I add garden

cucumber, summer tomato diced,

tossed over greens, your favorite,

a sprinkling of feta cheese, 

a snitch of basalmic.

Would that the rest of our days

could be so ordered.

And so I will remember these

preparations, mornings, noon, and night

as clearly as the words between us no one knows,

as fleeting as the five house sparrows 

that followed me on my early morning walk.

What would I say or do

if I had two years and eight months left

to live with you?

I’d rather not know.

I’d rather take each day as a gift:

Irreplaceable.

Day 2 of OctPoWriMo. Are you writing a poem a day for the month of October? Please share!