Packing to evacuate

Photos first, then the
baby albums. Love letters.
We can buy new clothes.

Can’t sleep 6

At 6:30 they
awake to find I’m still up.
The curse of deadlines.

Disbelief

Can it be midnight?
I’m losing track of time, hours
misplaced like lost keys.

Morph

You think you know me.
Carefully constructed, I
reinvent daily.

Online

Anonymity
becomes us all as we put
our second life first.

Rummage Sale

At my church they price
too high. Refugees, students
leave empty-handed.

Psych kick

Today it didn’t
happen. But I thought it would.
What does Facade say?

Word whore

I was first published
in Seventeen magazine
thirty years ago.

Wabi-sabi

To possess few things,
humble in beauty and worth.
Such simplicity.

Essential

The spareness of what
I write contrasts with my
cluttered existence.