10/31/16: 25 Years Ago

an island’s birth

from a troubled sea—now so

wondrous to visit

10/30/16: X

the same daisies

I left still sitting near

a window

10/29/16: Supplication

another tempest,

another trunk broken

at the knee

10/28/16: So Soon Off Track

inappropriate

architecture—every roof

nodding the wrong way

10/27/16: Clock Radio

then untuned

static pours its dirt

over color

10/26/16: By Then They Will Have Had to Have

steps reaching

up—the measured climb

some advance

10/25/16: Another Shore

like watching

a chorus gasp all at once

in united need

10/24/16: Today’s Instructions

creep around

the dozing beast—take away

everything

10/23/16: Analogy #627

slow drips

that erode—each one

just missing

10/22/16: Mnemosyne

all the bottles—nine

empty—filling with evening’s

failing sun.