Your American chop suey

and your stuffed shells.

Corn bread and corn chowder.

Turkey pot pie,

broccoli cheddar quiche,

hazelnut coffee,

english muffins with raspberry jam

almond croissants.

Lilac scent wafting in the windows

Rose water

Fields of sunflowers

Sunglades over ocean scapes

Moon glades that lead back up to the moon

catnine tails and purple loosestrife

sunbeams through windows

A blankie and a reading spot in a Bay window

Barbara Kingsolver’s Bean Trees

Mary Oliver’s collection of poetry

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

your handwriting in those steno notebooks.

Cross words

Jeapardy

Seinfeld

Donovan’s “I love my shirt”

Joni Mitchell

Giraffe figurines

dangly hippy earrings

turquoise rings

blue station wagons

Harold and Maude.

The Apiat Andrew Bridge to Gloucester

where you always prayed to your dancing Mumma’s in the sky.

Rockport

Lexington Ave. Magnolia

Belcher st Essex

the laundromat in Ipswich

Beach St cafe in Manchester MA

Train rides to Boston

Harvard square,

the Copley where we stayed with your sister that time

she visited from Saudi Arabia and brought us back Moomoo’s.

Your Love

Your laugh

Your Light

All things that remind me of you

and that I treasure that much more

now that you are gone.