Promdemic

from prom to vaccine
in a short eight-hour night
(let science save us)

Pandemic Prom

there's no heartbreak here
just my girl, eighteen years old,
ready to face them

sneakers underneath
(pandemic proms are outdoors,
under tents, in grass)

she's taller, braver.
in her silver floor-length gown,
she masters the night

and aren't we a crowd?
this master-mix of humans,
standing on these rocks?

unsinkable us
right below the Molly Brown
(ready to swim. Win.)

graduating girl
ready to face the world
one ray at a time

vaccines could save us
(yet not from the ignorance
spread without needles)

though the frost persists
spring pushes its petals through
filled with rays of hope

snowy petals fall
as spring goslings first appear
(seasoned mockery)

is this for me, Mom?
the perfect kitty setting
for my striped haunches

rainy Mother's Day
(cantaloupe aches for planting)
my babies: plants, pets

crabapple blossoms
create a cute kitty cave
on a cool May morn

self-portrait art show
for my two youngest daughters
sunflower, glass shine