Sister

Looking forward to Janie's visit!

My sister

She is coming

From her tiny house

In New Mexico.

Me

I am here

Waiting

With my walker

And tongs

And more pills

Than I have ever taken.

The ankle braces

Remind me of Forrest Gump

Run, Catharine, Run.

My sister

She is coming

From her tiny house

In New Mexico.

I am waiting.

Feet at rest

Me and the cats. We are all praying. The sun has just come out. It's amazing the difference a little sun makes

Feet at rest

On a pillow

No pain for now

Me and the cats

Me and the walker

Me and the hospital bed

Me and what seems a plethora

Of pills

Me and so many people

To pray for

While my feet

Are at rest

On a pillow

Me and the cats

And the walker

And the hospital bed

Even maybe the pills

Praying

All of us

In prayer.

We all

Each of us

Offer our prayers

In different ways.

Haikus

I woke up a lot last night. I wrote haikus in my head to go back to sleep. I remember some of them were good. At 6 a.m. I realized I forgot to take my evening pills. So I took the important ones, cleaned the cat box, and went back to sleep. The haikus have all gone to that place haikus live. I remember when my son was five or six he would stress at bedtime about possibly forgetting something. What if I don't remember? he would say. I would sing him bedtime songs.

I wrote haikus all

Night. Woke up with haikus. Now

Don’t remember one.

Hawaiian shorts

This was not meant to be an experiment, but I guess it was, sort of. I noticed the man in the Hawaiian shorts.

Today

I did not forget my pills,

Nor did I take my pills twice.

It is possible to make mistakes

In both directions.

Oddly

Both offer similar

Confusion.

Today I noticed

The man in the Hawaiian shorts

At the gym.

It brightened the day.

I did not forget my pills.

I did not take my pills twice.

It is possible

To make mistakes

In both directions.

I noticed the man

In the Hawaiian shorts.

One needful thing

Wow. One needful thing at a time. I did not write yesterday. Today I did.

This morning

There is one needful thing.

I will write.

The words themselves

Do not matter.

I notice I forgot my pills again

Last night.

So

Perhaps

Two needful things.

Oh and maybe three

If I think hard enough

Remember the pills

Notice the golden morning light

The kitten sliding across

The dining room table

Me curled up

In the soft blue blanket,

That blanket given to me the first Christmas

After seizure number one.

This morning

Only one

Maybe two

Perhaps three

Needful things.