deepening winter
sweet home Chicago— penguins
roaming navy pier
Month: January 2019
2270
marie kondo’s house
overflows with junk and cats
a secret hoarder
2269r
cats in hot pursuit
a blue bottle buzzes by
beats television
2268
the super car wash
ketchup and candy wrappers
she files for divorce
2267
far from Chicago
spring’s early surprise visit
giving out daisies
2266
shadows shape a cat
changes to a tea kettle
changes to plum trees
2265
lazy lap tabby
leaps up and pounces
scores another moth
2264
gray and cold outside
my chilled brain— words and meanings
fly away like leaves
2263
shy, small passengers
chewing wires and napping
an Uber for mice
2262
cartoon mice are fun
but not real ones
nesting in the car
2261
the brutalities
people do— I should have been
a rock in the sea
2260
Oi village still now
tills their fields with fire—
ancestors in smoke
2259
blindness is nothing
I’ve the best part of the storm
resounding thunder
2258
only a few left
leaves of Japanese maple
red lanterns swaying
2257
my friends are still here
in the voices of children
playing hide and seek
2256
my elderly aunt
updates me on every ache
winter and life brings
2255
a cold gray morning
cat nuzzles into the warmth
my ceramic mug
2254
the miser counting
thirty five pounds and sixpence
over and over
2253
sound of maple leaves
or is it rain— too lazy
to pull the curtains
2252
weeks after Christmas
leftovers stacked in the fridge
raccoons won’t touch them
