Social Distancing

20 Things Better Than Coffee

Vermeer and Tom Waits.
The nobility of the 4-H kids at the Fryeburg Fair dressed in their church clothes
each one standing beside a steer at the auction.
Secret tree forts.
A pump organ on the lawn.
Your joke about the guy who thinks he’s a moth.

 Maps, birch bark and dice.
Uncle Glen delicately lighting the dynamite fuse with his Salem.
Judy Holiday.
Geodes.
Filling an inside straight.
The fuzz between your lower back and my lips.

Collective bargaining and seersucker.
Graveyards.
Tuning forks.
Counting the seconds
between lightning and thunder.
Hearing you climb the stairs carrying two steaming cups.