Coming to love him
would change the way she sees.
She would notice that he knows
how she takes her noodles,
the way he takes shorter steps
in the snow when she follows,
and how he hands her
a dime before she knows
her short-coming.

Coming to love him, she could see
the way he sees the sea
when she is coming,
the way blue waves bear yellow sky
? when she is coming ?
And the yellow
? how brilliant and buoyant ?
like ripened bananas against blueberries.
She would know he never saw yellow
before
she was coming.

Glenn Lyvers is winner of Midwest Literary Magazine’s Best Poet Award
(2009)-and a Wolfson Award winner in short fiction by Indiana
University. His most recent publication is “Glenn Lyvers – Midwest Collection”
isbn:978-0-557-13318-5 http://lyvers.com – Glenn requires a hand written note from your great great grandmother prior to being consulted.