Here I Am Again

 Here I am again

Two seizures

Three doctors

One ER

I do not remember much

This is the way

Of my  epilepsy

Bother

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Father

 It is Father's day

It is also your birthday

This year

 

Before you died

Our mother moved it

Back one month 

As if such things

Can be moved around

 

This year

It is your birthday

And Father's Day

A fitting thing

 

I remember

I have moved it back

To its correct date

 

Something New May Come

 Something new

May come

Something new

Always comes

I sit in my chair

Watch the milkweed

For the monarch's arrival

Watch rhe goldfinch

Swoop

Swoop aagain

Find the thistle seed

Sock

Swoop

Swoop again

The Edge

I live on the edge

I serve on the edge

It has always

Been so

Just so 

The liminal world

Has been mine

From the beginning

Til now

The Wind Blows Through

The wind blows through

Front to back

Back to front

The cat catches it

Watching the birds

Through the screens

Front to back

Back to front

Wherever the birds

Catch her interest

The robins seem  

To be her favorites today

Tomorrow it may be

The sparrows

She is a creature

Of whim

 

Krystallnacht

 We're not the same

As them

Store windows smashed

Streets filled

With broken glass

Capitol breached

We're not the same

We would never do

Such things

Not us

Not us

Surely

Not us

Connected

We are connected

One device to another

Telephone

Computer

My sleep doctor reads my sleep machine

On line

Begs to differ with me

When I say

I'm doing fine

 

No, you're not

He states firmly

Over Zoom 

 

My seizure watch

Alerts the family

To seizures on the horizon

Because most often

I do not know

They are galloping in

Until after

I have been left

In the dust