Canasta

Four cardinal points
Wedged into a mobile home kitchen,
Hunkered down, waiting for
a good meld hand.
Just past nine, table talk
Surrounds a pending
Phone call to Massey’s
Pizza and this week’s news.
We sit, cards spit
From Uncle Paul’s hand
And we gather them up
The night unfolds,
Deuces and treys
gathered and tossed,
another memory scored.