THE RED BUTTON

This morning
as I walked to my car
parked in the most ordinary place
not expecting anything out of the ordinary
not expecting anything,
I found a button on the sidewalk,
probably dropped from a child’s dress
as she walked to school.At the time,
in that first instant,
the button seemed astonishingly beautiful,
impossibly red,
perfect...
like, I guess, that moment
when I saw red
for the very first time.