The Porch

inside my mother’s screened-in porch, I


sit each morning pondering and writing


all those thoughts that were not meant to be,


especially since I am always tempted to


look inside the unexplained or the unanticipated              


as if it was still always meant to be but we


had somehow missed it in our calculations;


and if it were not for the money left behind


there would be no porch in which to sit at all.


18Mar18