Father's day.

sitting at a party,

someone my father knows

i wonder

who are these people

and how is it they are so confident

and she's a lawyer

a party for her new deck

encircling a tree

in the front yard

her dad built

for her

colombian father like mine

a tree house, he said,

since i never did it when you were little

and she called him her best friend

and i envied that

that closeness one could have with a father

that i've never had

and i watched

my father

chatting and laughing

and felt

ok with that


16 June 2007, Indianapolis, IN