One Day

by Bradley Steffens

                              One Day

my profile pic

will be a red candle

with a yellow flame

against a black

background.

It is

the Filipino way.

My stepson

will post it,

his mother,

inconsolable,

still calling

my name.

Bradley Steffens is the author of two novels, dozens of poems, and more than seventy‑five nonfiction books for young adults spanning science, technology, current affairs, culture, and biography.