What Gets Me Through
And if I have to be transparent,
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Katherine’s Coffeehouse
Backstories
Even dandelions have backstories,
if you think long enough about your
past. How when you were supple
I Do Not Know the Name of this Town
And I would like to label it just a bad mood,
this feeling of being closed in, trapped by
failing bone and muscle and a system set
tightly around the rich and healthy. Except
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I Was Okay Until I Found Her Collar
Moving inherently means sorting
through the ages, opening trunks
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To Me, an Apology
I owe me yet another one – another, I’m sorry I did that
to me, another, please forgive my insensitivity, my inability
to protect us from the unexpected week’s end, blasting
the same old lie, that we were never good enough to survive
Thirteen Ways of Looking at My Past Employer
I
I was of two minds, now
Returned to one: You do not deserve
Anyone.
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Opus Number Something – On Gratitude
I was this many years old when I learned what an opus number
means, how chronological order is not always set by composers,
but by scholars, historians, and academics. And having looked
up the word, as I am wont to do, having taken the head-first swan
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