My husband announced tonight
in the way that marriage
seventeen years later
can be unpredictable
that if he knew he was going to die tomorrow
he would decide to believe
in an afterlife
and since he said nothing else
except ask me if he should make
noodles for the kids
I know in my heart
in the way that marriage
seventeen years later
can be psychic
that he told me this
so that if I am near him
just before he dies
I am to hold his hand
and remind him
how beautiful it will be
when he lands.