Add Water for Art

It's raining.
I'm in bed
with Frank O'Hara's
biography
(the one you gave me)
so
Larry Rivers and Jackson
Pollack and
the Museum of Modern Art
are scattered all over
the white and blue
quilt cover.

Yesterday
I shopped with
you
for black-jeans-with-exposed-
button-fly
even though I
didn't feel like it.

And now
as the drops
spatter
on today's canvas
I realize
all over again
that
you are a tonic
to me-
just you-
just as you
are.
We're like
freaks of nature,
getting along
so well:
two mountain climbers
trusting
each other with
the divine ascension
of our daily lives.

When
I woke to
the sound of rain
I thought
of you-
being cozy and
maybe
productive.

Monica Grant
Maple Ridge, B. C.