Any Day

by Bobby Sidna Hart

Years may lessen sorrow
but on days like today
when I’m standing at the sink
snapping pole beans
and listening to blue grass,
I wish you were listening too,
sitting down to dinner with us,
staying ‘til tomorrow.

Bobby Sidna Hart lives in North Carolina. She attended Nyack College, Nyack, NY in the 1970s, remembering her time there with fondness. In 1986, 1987 & 1990, Bobby was a Sam Ragan Writer-in-Residence, Weymouth Center, Southern Pines, NC. Her poetry has appeared in The Crucible (1987), Weymouth (1987), The Pilot (1987, 1995), Pembroke (1989), NC Poverty Project (1989), Book of Days (1997, Wake Forest University), Kakalak (2018), and SPLASH! (2019, 2020, Haunted Waters Press).