Copilot

while she’s in the hospital
     I’m a little freer
with my seeds

star aster 
     packed for 2023
impulse buy by the register 
     in Taos

I pour the packet 
     into the ground

I’m here breathing
     walking eating 

things she says
     she has to relearn

I did what I could 
     to keep her
on this side

not the great beyond
     the small right here

seeds & spells

I slip the empty packet
     into a sack 

out falls a slip of paper

     a million-mile copilot

grandpa on grandma
     after she’d passed