2025

Benumbed
​What? How? Who?!
Smiling out, curling in,
Not even denial

Drowning
Which way?
Flailing
Which way?!

Clamoring, gathering
Do, do-do

You cannot take all life away.

We continue:
Kindness, honesty, courage
You and I, I and thou
Remember?

I see you,
Marietta*
I hear you.
(You were mistaken)

Bold light, sane words
Creative THUNDERclap
And Covid will not be unwritten

Disappearances, spite.
Normalizing. NOT normalizing.
Summer vegetables
Ordinary, extraordinary.

Let the music play!
Gather ‘round.
This is my world.

Find a way, show up, speak up
Find a way, show up, speak up
Marietta, let’s live. Together

A win.
​And
Eating! Hungry!
Feeding others.
Gathering, gathering,
Hold my hand

The wind blows away
The wind returns, without me.
Drink the past                  Not forgetting
Breathe the present                 (just right)
Express the future                Beauty, agon (dance)
All living                    Always moving

​* About a year ago I wrote a post addressed to Marietta.