PAD Day 20: A Handmades Tale

Today's poems from Poetic Asides and NaPoWriMo: (1)Write an "isolation" poem, and (2) write a poem about a handmade gift you received. I actually wrote a poem yesterday titled "Isolation", but I'll give it another go today.

When it comes to poems about handmade gifts, I don't think anyone can top "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins. Here's a video of him reading it. (I was at this reading, by the way, at the Dodge Poetry Festival - I think this was in 2008. Billy has always been one of my favorites, and I got to work with him in  Key West in 2015.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khQ9e0QpEM8

Here's my attempt at a "handmade" poem, with an element of "isolation". (I have a birthday coming up soon, so this is just an imagining of what it could be like.)

Drive-by Birthday

This year there is no party

in the traditional sense,

but friends and relatives send him

best wishes via internet,

and a few drive by his house,

honking with balloons and signs,

singing "Happy Birthday",

and some even drop off gifts.

He and his wife are "high-risk",

so they almost never venture out,

but she manages to cook him a special dinner.

They watch a movie they've wanted

to see for months, and she gives him

a handmade card on construction paper

with a rough sketch of flowers on the front

and a sweet sentiment inside.

I couldn't get to the card shop, she says,

teary-eyed. I'm sorry it's not something better.

No, he says, taking her hand.

It's perfect.