Me and my gardener reminisce.
We just found out we both grew up
in the same small town
on a cold, hilly, beautiful island.
Now we like the warmth.
'When I was in the Navy...' he adds
and I notice the dark tattoos
crawling from under his sleeve.
How sweetly serendipitous! Don't you just love that about life? :-)
ReplyDelete"Small world,' as they say! We are far from our shared birthplace now, in a different small town.
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