Sodden ground swampy
a mash of leaves, plants, flowers
once distinct, now soup.
January thaw
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Category Archives: detritus
Dishes in the sink
Domestic mountains
rimmed with grime, sponge scaling this
Everest of suds.
Overlooked
Forgotten summer
umbrella aged by winter’s
wig of heavy snow.
Dishwasher repair guy
Olive pits. Glass shards.
Bent straw. He warns, It’s not a
garbage disposal…
Brief holiday visit
Once her nest, now a
museum to her old self.
Home is elsewhere.
Past life public
Looking back I find
this old friend, written record
for the world to view
Loser
You still up? Dude, it’s
not like the internet won’t
be there tomorrow.
Visitors to a dead blog
WordPress stats: twenty-
two-thousand views in ’12. This
despite no new posts.
Last day of the year
Where did they go? Wake.
Eat. Work. Pay bills. Each the same.
Days blink by, all gone.
Hoarders on A&E
What we hold onto
owns us drowns us sedates us
slow death by shopping.
a haiku a day 