Senior's Hall

Today she's playing crib, tomorrow

she'll play whist, or is it bingo?

It makes no difference. She splits the deck,

each card snapping like the caragana pods

she knows are bursting whether she is there

or dealing clockwise. The window separates

her from the sun, but she feels it just the same:

pressing on her hand, telling her the season

while she breaks and folds like homesteads.