Mouth full of fluff

There are days

In which our mouth

Is filled with fluff

No sentences

Barely a single 

Word

Our tongue trips

Over our teeth

These are days

To watch what happens

Around us 

 

Surprise

When people disappear

Where do they go

Do they hide

In the cracks

In the corners

Do they wait to make

An entrance

Unbeknownst

Surprise

Surprise

Surprise

I'm here

Glacial Remains

 

So many names

For glacial remains

There are signs of glaciers

Everywhere

So many names

Terminal moraines

Erratics

Drumlins

Esters

So many names

For glacial remains

 

Training wheels

If 65 is the new middle-age

When do we expect

To die?

I am now 65

Is this what middle

Looks like? 

Will we all make it

To 130

I have barely

Just begun

I use a different set

Of training wheels 

For these years.

Shake off the fluff

The tasks for today:

Write a poem

Speak with the new editor

Watch goldfinches

Eat seeds

Off the thistle

Shake off

The fluff

Watch more goldfinches

Stay awake

Don't drink coffee

Study

For the sleep test

Tonight

Stay awake

Shake off

The fluff.

 

What have we done to the rain?

With thanks to Bob Dylan's; What have they done to the rain?

 

What have we done

With the rain?

With the world

With the country

With our borders

With our families

And yes I mean

We

It's so easy to blame

Those other people

Who live

Next door

What have we done

With the rain?

Just as long as I write

On this new day

Which poems hide out

Demand

To be written

A blank page

Will not do

No thousand words

For me

As long as I write

Just as long

As I write.

Beirut: begin again

 A new awareness:

Beirut doesn't just need doctors

Doesn't just need nurses'

Though doctors and nurses

Are certainly necessary.

With its buildings

Blasted to bits

It needs architects

Contractors

To begin again

And then

Begin again.

 

What comes next

 Pile of creative possibilities

Next to the chair

Waiting for

What comes next

Waiting for

What next lands

On the plate

Speaks

In my mind

Whispers

In my ear

Catches the corner

Of my eye.

Colors to sew

Words to write

Whar comes next.

Ice cream is available everywhere

First post haircut

Still in the pandemic

We all wear masks

Such as they are.

The restaurants are not open

Ice cream is available everywhere

Damn gorgeous cardinal

Birdie

Birdie

Birdie

Damn gorgeous cardinal

Outside

The bedroom window

Five

In the morning

The redbud is his

In case we forgot

Overnight.

Birdie

Birdie 

Birdie

 

Covers

 I do not think

In covers.

It's time for the fun part

He says

Your book will have

A cover.

I do not think in covers

Words

Are my thing

Let others create pictures

From t

So be it.

he words.

But if a cover is necessary.

Can we go see nature?

Can we go see nature?    The request came

From the five-year old. So many years ago now

It was no use to say

Nature is everywhere

We knew what she meant.

 

 

Morning eyes

The cardinal I saw

Out the window

This morning

Was only a bunch

Of dead leaves

It fooled the cat

As well.

We saw the cardinal

Two mornings ago

It was a simple mistake

Brown crispy leaves

Red bird

Both all

Aflutter

A simple misunderstanding

Bird

Leaves

Morning eyes.

I must remember

I  must remember

To watch my feet

Not trip

Fall down the stairs.

Fall up the stairs.

Some mornings

The stair rails

Are more helpful

Than others

The stairs

More carpeted

More slippery

I must remember

To hang on

Watch

Where

I am going

Watch

Where

I am coming.