Traffic didn’t stop today
tires didn’t screech,
there were no sirens, no wailing,
no headlines on the news.
The stores were open wide,
people browsed and sat on benches
licking raspberry cheesecake cones.
There was no lightening, no thunder,
no roar of wind or hurricane,
just an ordinary, sunny summer day.
I wouldn’t have known
but for Zoom,
and for the Rabbi saying her name,
watching the casket being lowered,
and all of us, together, saying Kaddish.
It shook me from my dream
of unreality,
so I could walk on down the hall
and know,
my sister died today.
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