TOM AND ROSIE

Rosie leans over, whispers
in Tom's good ear. Their temples 
touch, her silver curls 
to his short thinning gray.
Tom's hand reaches and rests
on Rosie's knee. She covers it 
with her hand, his thin knuckles 
beneath her fuller ones, rhymically
kneading a firm and familiar place.



© 2004 by Richard W. Todd

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