among you,
to spend my time not thinking of what lay beyond you.
You made me laugh and recognize
my spirit...
that I am of my time, and like it.
Like you, I want things to hold on to;
to sit around the table holding chairs;
serving spaghetti;
filling my eyes with the air before tears...
To flush, and find my face full
of tears?
It is meaningful to remember us as a kind of family.
Though we had no idea where our tomatoes were from,
we were a kind of family.
