Are You Ready?

We were not.

We were not quite ready 

anita pelayo rivera les dames d'abord

to 

let go of each other.

After a phone call from the lab

reporting a "suspicion of cancer"

we 

laughed at the silly stories we tell each

looked out the frosty kitchen window

to admire 

the ordinary finch pecking at the dead flowers

in the broken pots

and we looked up into the black canvas

of night

to discover that

the stars were 

ours.

Hallelujah. 

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