598: the world asks to be seen

a shoulder width at a time read it as you walk poetry akin to a wall but more werner created a nomenclature of color one wall one poem a color scape of sensuality or simply beauty the window screens the evidence of effort no one recognizes the implication one step one...

595: a quarter turn

I’ve seen the moon whole half quarter my own life tipping toward the waning quarter I can turn so easily it seems tomfoolery this ease of body not showing true age a collective sigh erupts from the mouthes of my selves child adolescent young adult mother sister...

594: that rough patch

the bark tore at my young skin palms scraped raw I did not care on top of the world with nothing mooring me to soil and sidewalk I imagined no one could find me invisible ephemerous no longer of this world the long loop of life that has unfurled 50 years at least 45...

593: it could happen

the sun is there the light proves it’s so the grey sky morning I tell myself the dog must walk then the leaves must rake the floors must clean the books must balance I hold another tea a cup of warmth as the shortest day draws near no longer anxious not about it...