Offering II: Delivery

February 8, 2025

The Hermitage has seen eighteen wintery days since you

left us and

lo and behold...

Your new chair, delivered today

the much maligned Lazy Boy.

Let it heretoforth be described as BIG.

You would have seen the humor,

sitting erect in it,

legs dangling.

"Seems well-made."

"Sturdy."

"Kinda big, isn't it?"

I would have laughed at myself

and at the sight of you

and you would have said

"I like it, Margie Sue.'

Later in the day, fiddling with the release lever,

my feet pop up to greet me.

"Stay here," the chair says quietly in its' big puffy, lumbering way

"Take a load off.

Come out of the bedroom. Soon it will be

time for waking. Spring will find you

soon enough."