Pink pillowy cherrystone
goddesses
birthed in salt
The recreation room is large and clean
Dominated by a giant TV screen.
Around it residents nap in reclining chairs.
There is an upright piano, a table laid with sweets.
Something about his father
and a very expensive Stradivarius
An anecdote about two different
Elizabeth Bishops
The man who gave up drugs for God
raised a soprano sax, now a ram’s-horn
calling us to confess, now a muezzin’s