the day starts with tests
to secure her friends’ safety
in this COVID year
negative is good
whoever thought it’d be good
to be negative?
and so, she smiles
and we blow up the balloons
(losing one to wind)
and the four friends come
and she’s happy for just a day
of this lonely life
Vamos a ganar
with this American map
he knows nothing of
every moment counts
and he has read my soul here
with these three small words
these fleeting moments
shared with a stencil of love
between my daughters
working for love
(sometimes it doesn’t pay back)
but we always try
some glow before snow
our weekend wrapped in moments
without argument
sunset petroglyph
lighting up our last night here
with teens who smile
possibilities
rest in moments we strive for,
moments we drive for
September travel?
we can learn geology
and visit arches
we can buy peaches
from the orchards where they’re grown
relishing their juice
yet COVID follows
with at-capacity parks,
a shut-down ghost town
my motto follows:
be prepared. pack sushi, fruit.
drive towards the sunset.
find the world’s curves
where the sky clears away smoke
and we can just. breathe.
they are my world
even if they hate me now
(these teen years will pass)
my paper artist
finished her first high school art
with paper and paint
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