What Could Have Been Today

What could have been today,

but we didn’t delay —

Two drizzles in four months

of winter in the desert.

Two thousand

miles away,

it hasn’t stopped raining

for three weeks, two in April,

one in May.

I missed the rain half-way

through that winter.

Now I’m told the moon

will be the brightest it

has been any day

in the last twenty-years,

because of the moon’s

and earth’s sway

toward each other.

Starting at dusk as the moon

rises in the west it will

be a magnificent day

showing two thousand

miles away,

where the sky is clear

and it hasn’t rained

in many, many

a day.

If we hadn’t left

that day before the merry,

merry month of

May,

I would be sitting on the bench

along the way

with the dog wandering a short

way away.

Should I buy a ticket,

fly that way

or just give it my

usual, “What the hey!”?

It would cost a lot

less just to stay

in the gray,

get a good night’s sleep

and watch it

tomorrow on U-tube.

What’s another day?