for Sharon
I like your plan to engineer a new outlook
The result of replacing a single window with four
Opening the view to our side yard trees and rock garden
That we may enjoy from our dinner table.
Not now, you say, next year
But already I visualize what it will be like
Including the additional houseplants hanging there
Joining our large collection in this house of windows.
For your birthday there’s nothing you request
Except some stickers for the windows to warn the birds
Though we did pass a house with a peaked glass roof
That you pointed out wishfully as a place for more plants.
Such greenery in our life becomes you
As I look upon the beautiful plants all around us
Growing nurtured in good health by you
Cultivated with your loving touch, as am I.
