The days are long since you died.

Enya and Tammy are looking everywhere.

I want, desperately, to say

You will be back.

*

There is nowhere to be or look

without seeing you.

*

I walk the aisles of the grocery store

I get so little of what we used to get.

There you are squeezing a melon

There you are looking to get

Anything new for Enya and Tammy

*

I don’t go home

I can’t face our kitties.

*

The bench near the river

where we would talk

and watch the river flow

is where I need to be

though I am alone.

*

I am home and

serve up their lunch

while they rub up against my legs

and tears salt their food.

*

I lay in bed

Enya and Tammy join me.

We fall asleep.

I hear Bette say,

You are not alone.

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