Small Ode To Chocolate Milk, Lunch Period

chocolate milk in small wax cartons
in the cafeteria line.
how it made the homesick heart

feel suddenly revived.
chocolate milk in quiet splendor
sipped through a straw

in a roomful of strangers
who really don't look
all that friendly, somehow

I owe you something
even now.

mary angela douglas 24 july 2015