present

today is today;

only, today’s different:

today, I am here.

(September 11, 2020)

enough

a stir of air around a leaf

a hesitation brief enough

to give pause to be still

to listen through the quick silence

for the birds’ chatter and flirt

to return and then it doesn’t

and it doesn’t matter

that you missed it

there’s always enough

for any day to be enough

(May 11, 2020)

from a work in progress: “process, not a journey” (15)

from the upstairs window

the grey cat waits

and watches shadows

shift like dark flowers

dance in morning light

(January 21, 2020)

from a work in progress: “process, not a journey” (8)

I don’t want

to be a salmon struggling

upstream to spawn and die

exhausted and decayed

nor

to be swept downstream

with broken branches and silt

into a churning sea

I want to be

a catfish

calm and content

deep within a silent pool

(January 12, 2020)

Darkness surrounds me

as the coffee pot gurgles.

A cat purrs nearby.

(October 23, 2019)