"Now and Then"

today for some reason
I stopped and washed
my eyeglasses at the sink
like my father use to do
each time he was getting
ready to leave the house
he held his eyeglasses under
the fast flowing water
at the kitchen sink
just touching them with alittle
dish washing soap
then dried them with the towel
that hung on a hook
just below on the cupboard
the top part of his glasses
were dark brown plastic
as were the sides
that went back to his ears
around the bottom
they were a silver metal
they had those
funny little nose guards
I remember how his eyes
looked after he put on
his clean glasses
my father had beautiful eyes
I see them as clearly now
as I did then