Fear

it’s good to be afraid

it proves you’re not an idiot

Silver moment

When we first spoke
Rain stopped dripping
Worms stopped digging
Water ceased to run
The sun
broke through
All I saw
its glinting image
On a forest pool
I found silver
On a fish’s back

Ripples

Ideas
like stones swallowed by water
the moment of splash
then disappear
into bottomless depth
barely a ripple left behind
But
nothing is lost
though the moment is gone
traces of something
still hide
with other creatures of the deep

Loneliness of the housewife

I went out
But I forgot to talk
I only watched
Then alone again
Chasing joy with my kids
But I can’t run forever
I felt the walls close in with their fingers
dripping crumbs and sticky residue
I saw the table crawl with teeming ants
I heard the floors rise up in protest
Overcoming the bourgeois furniture
With piles of angry mess
Toys books shoes clothes
Revolution!
Then you
Came home
Forgot to talk to me
Feels like I’m not even there any more