Ripples

My beloved teaches Congress and American Government at Northeastern IL University. We are watching the ripples together. We are both amazed. He is governmentally amazed. I am theologically amazed.

In my blue chair

On Mondays and Fridays

I watch the ripples move

Across the country

From a stone tossed

In our large

Country-sized pond.

First one judge

Now three

They decide to join

The movement

Of the waters

Skipping stones.

They land

Across the Potomac

Settle there.