So uncharacteristic
Of my friend
What was she saying
Why should she reject
My offered request
Suggestion to dine
Repast shared
Intended as a gift
Do what you will with this
‘Twas only addressed to you
I need not know you never saw it
Need not wait for response
Yet still I wonder
What she saw
What she heard
Viewed not as gift
But spoiled child
Taking leave
Now a coyote paces
Where lions and leopards
have stood
Once a tiger too
And maybe I didn‘t speak these things —
Just placed them in
An envelope of text
That somehow ended here.