Poem For Monica

They're building a wall in my house

on top of an old wall because of leakage.

The whole family is here including five

year old Damien, who likes me. He has

a new puppy as big as my hand. I gave

both of them cold milk to drink.

This just happens when you're alive,

all of it, so ordinary, so magic...we take

for granted the magnificent dream we

wake up into every day. Everything

that emanates from our hearts and minds

fills the universe like a perfume, "immense
and living."