dear Georgie,

yesterday
outside the coffee shop
a girl tells her mother
            i wanna go sit in a church
and she doesn’t explain
she doesn’t qualify
her desire, just says it
and mom, maybe
giving up or something else,
decides not to ask why
and the brother is silent
and everyone just has to
drop it, me included. so i
look down for a second
and they’re gone, all three.
mom daughter son. poof!
maybe they blew away,
to a church somewhere or
a car somewhere or went up
like smoke on a windy day
and i know you said
            don’t be so nosey it’s
            incredibly alienating
but i wonder where god is
in all of this. maybe
the church? but that
feels a little obvious.

last year you also said
            try to find some beauty
            once a day at least
            it’ll do you good, Lee,
and i guess i’m writing
because i want to know
does this count?

toodles,
Lisette