TO AN OLD IMMIGRANT WOMAN

---who left her homeland in 1950 [After W. C. Williams] remembering a day in childhood a framed picture of its laughter in her hand It looks good to her It looks good to her. It looks good to her. You can see it by the way she presses her lips to the faded sunlight around the girl in the picture Remembered a smell of days past, sweet seeming to fill the air It looks good to her ---LTG 2004