PROXY

Your fineness was a mirror –
Your kindness was a gaze
That helped me find a higher road
Because you held a place

For dreams I could not christen –
For promises not yet –
And though the glass turns dark again,
I never will forget

The fellowship of greetings –
The choreography
Of unexpected courtesies
That lift reality.

(8 October 2008, Provo, Utah)