from the hospital room of her dying friend
to the office of the adoption agency.
I bet sometimes she doesn't know
what threshold she is waiting at --
the hand of her sick friend, hot with fever;
the theoretical baby just a lot of paperwork so far.
But next year she might be standing by a grave,
wearing black with a splash of
banana vomit on it,
the little girl just starting to say Sesame Street
and Cappuccino latte grande Mommy.
The future ours for a while to hold, with its heaviness --
and hope moving from one location to another
like the holy ghost that it is.
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