Mary

After 55 years
Here
She’s moving

The dumpster
In her drive
Says it all

A sofa
At a broken angle
A mattress piled on
A chair sticking up
In one corner
Say it all

She’s moving out
After 55 years

Senior housing
Assisted living now
Alzheimer's
They say

She’s moving away
She has moved away

After 55 years
It seems well tended
Convenient enough
A dumpster filled
With 55 years

She’s moving away
In fact
She’s almost gone.

-- J. K. Durick