He turned on the TV—
all day I hadn’t known a thing:
Cracker Barrel’s new logo,
wildfires swallowing forests,
war in faraway streets,
Labubus, school shootings,
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce,
flash floods, murders, missing persons.
I’ve only known of these things
through a screen.
Here, it is just him and me,
our little tending:
the bunny nest we fenced,
feral cats we feed,
the tree that leans too far,
compost turned slow,
tomatoes plucked
from sun-warmed vines.
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