Passing The Accident
a car rear ended another
in Missoula
so we’re glad to leave
me with bloodshot eyes
the car with a new tire
and my husband says Casper next
The Bus Driver
misdirects me to People’s Park
where I see a lavender lilac bush
a mother with four children
and a man whose four mile walk
gets disrupted by a broken sewer line
the man drops me off at the MAC
where ArtFest is live
after a two year break
due to the pandemic
say hi to L.R. and Carole Montgomery
get a painting of a lilac bush
in People’s Park
serendipity
then I tour the Dreamworks Animation
and tour the first floor
of the Campbell House
unlike the two previous times
I can no longer handle the stairs
before returning home by bus
a mini adventure in my smaller life
since my husband’s passing
Paula Yup, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, has lived in the US, Japan, Canada and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. She currently resides in Spokane, Washington. She has poems published in Exit 13, Trajectory, Evening Street Review, J Journal and other magazines. Paula’s husband Dean Jacobson taught Marine Biology in the Republic of the Marshall Islands for a dozen years before returning to Spokane, Washington. Dean passed away in 2018 after an illness.
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