BEN

The Moon is older than the Earth

By as much as a million years

Scientists say… but where it was

Before and how it got to where

It makes its way around the Earth

In an orbit that I can follow

is the kind of wonderful mystery 

That my friend Ben has been.

How to think about him now

That he is not among us here

Is like trying to figure out how

That green cactus is eternal…

It belongs in the green pot

At the edge of a garden walk

Where I will see it when I pass

And know always it is there .

Patrick's Pizza, like Margaret's Blueberry Pie

is a kind of magic...

Like Michael.