Goodbye, Spring

2ND AVENUE MEDITATION GROUP

Diligently she works here

long hours, speaking not only

a different language from

the city norm

but also a continent away

from this Chinese family run business.

On her days off she sits in the

customer chair closest to the

open window

watching the tram, a sky gondola,

drift back and forth across 

the tidal strait as her clothes

wash/spin.

We could talk, she and I, but

something in her pose

asks not to be intruded upon.

I smile (in case I'm wrong) and

fish out my crossword puzzles.

I feel like designing one myself:

5 across ten spaces

"quiet world for restoration"

l a u n d r o m a t

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