washing crew arrives
with squeegees
and drying chamois.
Tuesday, a mason repairs
brickwork where the silver
maple went down in a late
March storm.
Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday, the lawn care
team prunes, mows, and
turns five leaf blowers
to full force and volume.
All this in preparation for
Saturday’s celebration
of the daughter joining
her father’s law firm.
Saturday morning, rain ticks
against the freshly-washed
windows. It falls all day on
the brickwork, on the lawn,
and on the tent filled with
music and laughter; and
on the caterer’s server:
undocumented, checking
her cell-phone in case a message comes to
get out of there, quick.
Martha Christina is a frequent contributor to Brevities. Longer work appears in Innisfree Poetry Journal, Naugatuck River Review, earlier postings of Red Eft Review, and most recently in the anthology Ice Cream Poems from World Enough Writers. She has published two collections: Staying Found (Fleur-de-lis Press) and Against Detachment (Pecan Grove Press).
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