but I did walk with my nephew

visiting from Colorado

who explained the mycorrhizal –

fungal web to me like a scientist

not a third grader

as he pedaled Pop’s bike

up Victory

to show me his pit stops

 

the spinning thing

(a double glass pinwheel),

the one pretty flower bed,

the rain wire “like we have”

and the Black Lives Matter sign

“Because black lives DO MATTER!!!”

 

I grinned as he turned there

to coast down the hill

just as his cousin joined us

to say, “time to go home”

and I thought to myself

he’s gonna be alright