Romance

From In My Old Age ...

Romance

in line at Starbucks

she leans forward

and kisses him

soft as her skin

in the shower earlier

their glow still fresh

all things possible

divorce for example

when this moment

gets forgotten

and there's the tragedy

not the divorce

but the forgetting

let nothing negate

the kiss at Starbucks

it matters it counts

and without it

in a zero-sum universe

the balance of the world

tips askew

you must horde the good

moments in memory

despite everything