Life As I Knew It

A trip for a vanilla latte
alone for a moment
in that space of the
morning after
where I knew even
before the knowing
those freckled green eyes
setting about their business
of changing my life
in a blink and crinkle
of dazzling light
of one thing leading
to the next, to love
life expanding and
contracting before
bursting wide open
and thrusting me into
something I knew
to be my old, familiar
self, in a baptism of
yes and yes again
holding hands on a bench
in the late morning sun
home ever after in
her laughing kiss
life as I knew it
freshly born on
the doorstep of the day