We ate thick vegetable soup,
Sitting on the retaining wall,
In the backyard.
Plump piles of leaves
Waited to be mower mulched,
And wheel barreled to the garden,
While we shared cracker,
A kiwi,
An apple.
Sun soaked and work warmed,
We talked of pecan harvest,
Grown children,
And Thanksgiving.
Neither spoke of love,
But we gathered it anyway.
Cerita M. Hewlett
December 3, 1997