On the way to the supermarket
whom should she meet,
but a blue balloon floating by.
Who hasn’t?
But it would have been absurd for it
to be attached to a grey-haired old woman
even for a moment.
So she watched it
and the moment and the balloon were lost.
The child, no doubt, soon forgot.
To her regret, she could not.
(September 1998)
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