CLASSIFIED: EVENING COMPANION SOUGHT
For a small person in polka dots
and an old person in wheels,
someone to walk between them
at the speed of wonder,
which is slower than you think.
Must be fluent in pointing-at-things.
Must not mind wind.
Must understand that Disney
is less a place than a directionβ
southeast of the fox on the hill,
north of the lit window,
due forward from wherever we are now.
Experience with clocks preferred.
Experience with ending preferred.
Experience with mist
that turns everything into watercolor
absolutely required.
No fixed hours. The shift ends
when the small one stops reaching
or the old one says the name
that means he's found his way back.
Compensation: one evening
you will not get again.
Apply in person.
Bring wellingtons.
The path is wet.