12/31/20: Resorting

all the shouted

news finding ways back

to silence

12/30/20: A Dark Room Isn’t Empty

though no footfall is

seismic, your being here

is known

12/29/20: An End

surprise—unreeling

tape, rope, or time never

really loops

12/24/20: Mom Gives Up Naming the Unnamed in Old Photographs

they’re now stories—rays

without suns—hearts of light

beaming anyway

12/23/20: So This Is Christmas

a dropped Starbucks—

red and green cup crushed, frozen,

spread like a star

12/22/20: Recurrent Digits

some stirred mystery

bubbles through numbers—odd air

erupting inside

12/21/20: Where Someone Leaves Crumbs

walking gingerly

through pigeons, trying not to

spur applauding wings

12/20/20: December Overcast

once again

a shrouded sky—living

inside linen

12/18/20: Memory’s Weight in Rain

they say you’re wet

when you’re wet—no use

regretting clothes

12/17/20: Internalized Capitalism

making by spending

time and money and desire

until there is none