Since You Asked

the first 2 stanzas:

Since You Asked

for a friend who asked
to be in a poem

Since you asked, let's make it dinner
at your house - a celebration
for no reason, which is always
the best occasion. Are you worried
there won't be enough space, enough food?

But in a poem we can do anything we want.
Look how easy it is to add on rooms, to multiply
the wine and chickens. And while we're at it
let's take those trees that died last winter
and bring them back to life.

-Lawrence Raab
What We Don't Know About Eachother (1993)