Casting

Today is your birthday
and we walk
through a garden before dinner.
It is raining lightly, you have a cold
and there is no one there but us.
We sit by a wire form that drips
rhythmically into a green concrete pool.
Four peacocks meander
along the wall beside us.

We are happy with each other,
like the drops and the water,
the peacocks and the wall,
the drizzling rain and your cold,
our little plans and the soft surprises
that always seem to follow.

We love each other gently
and rest in nature's hand,
the same hand that made you
and brought you into the air
and placed you just so,
by the raindrops and me.