May 3, 2021 - Perpetual

Words like Vermouth and Vermont, stores like Target

and Burlington Coat Factory, seasons like almost winter

and no longer spring. Stories like that time we went bowling

two days after the snowstorm in northeast Ohio, and those two weeks

we drove out west to Phoenix. Memories like you in the passenger seat

at dusk, taking photos at stoplights and drinking coffee from Vermont

with vermouth, which we found in November at a Target in your hometown /

right across the way from Burlington Coat Factory ––– & just before the snow.