At her Cafe Loup birthday dinner last night
Annie beautiful
some people are always beautiful
when Stephanie asked
for her birthday advice she said
Live Life Now
we all agreed especially Howard
who says he’s ninety plus
but on the way home
I started thinking about
what happened the day before
and today and tomorrow
I lost now the way I often do
until I saw my new blind yoga teacher first class
yesterday touching my spine
and then Annie in her black and white sweater
smiling the word Now.
