We’re After the Same Rainbow’s End

For Greg Ruud

So glad not to be sitting looking at the river!
(We need more distance than others do).
But I sang “Moon River” at my dying friend’s birthday party.

There were a lot of people there already—too many distractions for it to be a really sincere moment(but sincerer than sitting by the river).

I was wearing a mask when I sang “Moon River.”
People could barely see my twinkling blue
eyes when I sang the huckleberry-friend

line—that makes my brown eyes tear
up with gratitude when I think about the boon
of having a song to sing (and not to be sitting by the river)—
the luck of singing “Moon River” at my dying friend’s birthday party.