You sit at a window and listen to your father / crossing the dark grasses of the fields

When Dave Wheeler fielded the hard one-hopper / to short, he fired the ball to Melvin White

In the cool morning, bright-hot now from his bath, / my child’s child leans into my lap

I’m sorry for saying the heat death of the universe / when you asked what comforted me most

Don’t tell me there isn’t something pretty about you / (don’t tell me you don’t know it).

I cradle him, big kid curled like an infant, water rocking, / chlorine staunching his vivid knees, belly swollen, / legs blue.

If the places you go become you, / you must account for the drive-through / liquor store housed in the old carwash.

“And you know what the raven says.”

about his sadness. / About how the moon hung full / that morning, every morning

At sixty-one, I count and recount my remaining summers.