a poem

Sun Package

for Patty

You ask me to pray for your friend

and her daughter, both dying

of cancer. I send you this sun package

here on my body

lying in a hammock

by the river.

Honking geese fly the water course,

the taste of wild violets on my tongue

the ephemeral warmth

coaxing the red bud blush behind me,

love.

4/14/2013

Mary North