Remembering To Live/The Art of Gladness                             

Let's lakeside rendezvous,

someone else can

milk the cows, pay

rent, wake

the kids, fret

about the next

pandemic. We'll

wear orange sweatshirts

with our favorite old boots,

drink coffee with cream

'til noon and skip

stones like kisses

stolen smooth as butter

across the cheek

of the vast

patient lake.