i want to write about death but the xmas music
is cloyingly positive
my next door neighbor passed recently
she was 90 something, met her husband
in WWII and lived in this modest rambler
since 1959 raised 3 kids and now kept
an eye on her teetering husband
i saw then both out weeding and planting fall
chrysanthemums in october
she fell and buckled her knee
in early november
and just yesterday as my father in law
and her daughter helped a man
get his truck unstuck from the ice
she told him of her death
she was german and tough but sweet
always giving my children christmas candy
and easter eggs but now she
is gone
this street has known her for 63 years
i still see her husband walking around the block
with their daughter bracing his steps
and i think he won’t be separated
from her for too long
not even one more xmas
when i see them finally reunited
i envision them in europe newly in love
invisible and glowing arm in arm
years of song inside
their eyes
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