my first crush,
                                                                                and then you moved away.
                                                                                I saw you once again,
                                                                                over sixty years later,
                                                                                and I wondered where you'd been --
                                                                                still beautiful, grandmothered,
                                                                                smiling, in love,
                                                                                enjoying the gifts of the good life --
                                                                                your first-grade charm
                                                                                nurtured, matured to the fullest.