This poem first appeared in the 2027 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar
With the quiet intention
of a mother at prayer,
doing what's right and good
for a world on the verge
spinning wildly,
noisily away from
what's right and good.
And for this little while
at our little table
memory and hope come
into now
wordlessly contented
with nothing more
than you holding us
together
in this sweet moment.
