Weekend Visit
The
clogged toilet, the ever-damp towels,
some
sounds we’ve grown used to not hearing.
The TV
on long after we've gone up to bed,
gobbled-up
WiFi and cereal.
Our
children have come for a weekend visit,
bringing
laundry, some news, and a few new jokes
from college.
Pictures
of places we've never seen and friends
we'll never meet,
plans of
how to spend time while they're here, a few
golden rare hours
we get
to spend with them.
Grown in
ways we could not anticipate with goals all their own.
Futures
we hope to see and share, but no guarantees are here,
only the
laundry, the chatter, the bowls with milk still,
and some bread crumbs.
“Bye
bye. See you next time.”
Bye bye.
Bye bye.
Michael A. Griffith
Michael A. Griffith’s chapbooks Bloodline
(The Blue Nib Imprint) and Exposed (Soma Publishing and Hidden Constellation
Press) were released in fall 2018. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for
poetry in October 2018 for his poem “Bloodline,” which first appeared on Ariel
Chart. He lives near Princeton, NJ and teaches at Raritan Valley Community
College. He is Poetry Editor (US/Canada) for The Blue Nib.
https://twitter.com/AuthorMGriffith
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