Moving

Find a home

Pay the money

Sign the paperwork

Sort everything

Pack the boxes

Connect the utilities

Call the movers

Supervise everything

Clean the old place

Turn in the keys

Adios

Unpack

Hello

Watch

She watches

first the sunlight

across his face

while he sleeps.

 

He stirs

and finally moves

as the bright rays

drive him from his resting place.

 

Time

minutes

perhaps a hour

the light shifts

to another

corner.

 

Until

finally

midmorning

only shadows rest

upon the walls.

 

Time to go

to work now.

She thinks,

someday

she’ll only

have the watching

to do

(C) Glenda Kotchish

July 3, 2018