for Tom and Dee and M&M
Next to me on this airplane
a lawyer, or executive
just looked at photos of his wife
and daughter playing ukulele
in their living room together.
I glanced a moment. He did not notice.
We are over the pacific.
Somewhere below, on a green mountainside
an island girl plays a ukulele.
I play ukulele a little bit.
My oldest daughter plays it too.
We two together, just a bit.
Travel safe, executive.
Return home to the mountainside.
Return home and remove your tie.
It was right that you missed them.
They await you patiently
on the green mountainside of home.
B Taylor 2016