Don’t Think

 

Don’t think that I don’t notice when you don’t

think that I’m looking at you with your knife,

constructing our dinner, you with your phone,

 

talking about puzzles and love, the things

that matter most, and don’t think that I won’t

remember you slathered with mud, singing

 

Dylan in the Dead Sea, or the private

you, smiling to yourself as you bring

in the veggies from our garden of life.

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Brattleboro, Vermont

May 2021

 

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