Harry & Tommy & Teddy

Harry and
Tommy
and Teddy probably will
not remember
the Saturday
afternoon, so I will remember it
for
them, at the
Dancing Crane
Cafe
at the Central
Park Zoo,
when they sat,
waiting for their hot pretzels,
together,
Harry in the lime-est
green snowsuit and hat
imaginable
and
barely able to move
his
arms,
and their mom, or
their aunt, it
was, possibly,
finally bringing the snack
and telling them
that her
favorite things was
(were?)
the
penguins,
and Tommy
and
Teddy nodding,
while Harry just
sat,
pretty much immobile.
outside, it was
17
degrees &
sunny,
and the world was
speeding
by,
on its various
crash
courses,
but,
inside, time had
slowed
to a giggle
and a grin and
a swallow and Harry
finally
was
freed
from
his
parka,
and burped out
a
smile, and the man
watching
tried to recall similar
scenes and moments
with his own
Harry and Tommy and
Teddy
and wondered if anyone
ever
thought to
remember
them
for
him.