When Lucian, not yet three, puts his hand in mine.
I feel such joy–
this boy
knots his lifeline to mine
in a faith
that he can lead me to where ever he wants to go,
and I in the same perfect grandma faith,
take him there.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.