Gift As Curse
Right now
immediately
after Mother’s
death, our family
dynamics hold up
such that each of us
can grieve both together
and alone, that is up until
this one most like her husband,
my father -- may the most organized
person I’ve ever known rest in peace –
pulled his patented classic Daddy move
when fear extended clan being all together
proved a bit too much, of proudly rearranging
their tickets to catch an earlier return flight home.