12/17/20: Internalized Capitalism

making by spending

time and money and desire

until there is none

12/12/20: Acedia

each discovered

word—a new pair of shoes to

slide into

12/8/20: Am I Old?

opening and

closing day—the sore hinges

of books and bones

11/16/20: Cassandra Sez

we will emerge to

stand on corners and become

the shadows we make

11/13/20: House Arrest

as I child I pictured

the building imprisoned

without occupants

11/10/20: You Hold Out Hope For the Aliens’ Arrival

and I picture them—

archeologists combing

through ruins