She delivered my Amazon delivery
today

She placed it in the wrong but
okay location

I didn’t see it in the right place,
so I came out of my apartment building

to look for it and saw her, a beautiful
young African American woman in her Amazon truck

I asked her politely where the delivery was
she said up the flight of stairs in front of the door

(that is the back door up those stairs to the
hallway in which my apartment is located)

she said she couldn’t get the code to work
at the front door

so she hiked up the back stairs and left
the package there, close enough 👍

she offered to get the package and bring
it to me

I said no need, easier for me to just open
the back door

and I don’t want you to have to go back
up those stairs again

I said thank you for the delivery, and
she smiled such a wonderful smile

I said I like your hat (a beautiful orange
hat that looked great)

she smiled and said I like your hat
too, (a burgundy Gatsby hat)

in that brief moment, that fleeting exchange,
she looked absolutely beautiful to me

I felt there was even greater beauty in her
and goodness in her soul

for a fanciful moment, I briefly thought how wonderful
it would have been to be young and with her.

Bob Boyd