The Friends of the West Roxbury Library are having their annual April poetry contest. This year’s theme is listening. Here is the first poem I’m entering in the contest!
Listening to my wife
She tells me this and that
She tells me
again
how Pavlik lost his shoes at a concert when she was in college
and how
he died tragically in a plane crash in Costa Rica
it occurs to me
but for chance
Pavlik might be
instead of me
listening to my wife
copyright 2018 Christopher Donahue