Zucchini bread and eggplant on my
  doorstep and brightest, garden hues
vased on my dining room table from you.
  My kitchen and dining room are happy!
You leave your embrace, kind,
verdant piano leaves, and flowers -
a red rose, purple tall larkspur, alstroemeria,
  lilies, pink aster - and your eggplant,
and hand made bread self behind for me.

I'd rather you hid me in your suitcase! -
  than see vicariously Greece and Turkey,
unable to breathe Mediterranean air.

I wish to stroll ancient streets
 with you and Liana, seeking
to know brilliant faces and places,
  to bring part of the another side
of the world home and leaving
  lilies, purple larkspur, pink aster,
alstroemeria, red roses and verdant,
  kind, piano leaves of ourselves behind.