When the chance to meet/
is as vital as walking/
your dog, let me know.

“Wait for what?”, he asks./
For that magical person/
to appear at lunch?

My focus was on/
someone who creatively/
focuses on life.

There are couples
walking around
and looking
and holding hands
and laughing
and being excited
and having tea together.

Is that 2 much
2 want?
2 much
2 wish 4?

Dancing
doing
laughing
going hiking
visiting
talking
16:05 pm

“I’ll keep you around”,/
she says, like it’s punishment./
But I’m her blessing.

At the Victoria, BC “Remembering Glenna” celebration of Glenna Evan’s life, performances included serving Glenna’s favorite foods (sauerkraut, sausage, pickled beets and ground mustard — along with vodka shots!), fire dancing, the Velo Vixens, open mic memories, Glenna’s art, and a samba band — which of course led to a street dance celebration! As the evening ended, distant fireworks from Victoria’s Inner Harbour seemed to add to the joy of the evening, prompting this ConTEXTing poem:

At last,/
when distant fireworks passed,/
a samba band came./
We danced and laffed/
and spoke yer name./

We 8 sauerkraut, mustard, beets,/
and fired up yer street.