How're Dale & Pat?
How's your sister and her family?
How are you?
This isn't sarcasm; I care.
Go write a response,
because I know you get poetic
when you go home.
I'm gonna be in Nashville
and Louisville next year
for work and wandering.
Send me some recommendations.
I'll send you the book when it comes out.
Hand pistols for all to read.
It's the mystery of what might've been, right?
It's the minor moments that don't escape.
It's the good and the terrible.
It's the unknown that kills me.
It's the poems and inside jokes.
It's undeniable.