Lists

Today is a day of lists:

return library books

board meeting 

mail statements 

grocery shopping:

  -meat

  -carrots

  -cinnamon

  -oats

  -Athlete’s Foot cream

  -sympathy cards…

for it is also a week of deaths:

agonies, endings

and the requisite attending

social conventions…

4 sympathy cards

1 wake

1 funeral

1 meal for grieving family

1 batch of cookies for grieving family

because after all, food really is love

or at least the only solace

we can figure

But poetry is solace too,

and this is the month of poems

so to the list I add

30 poems for April -

and for today

I sneak away
for one
entire
poem

This is for day #1 of PAD (Poem a Day) for April, National Poetry Month.  I'm linking it to the Imaginary Garden, because "lists" are not what sparks my poetic heart, but poetry is what saves me.