Business as usual

Breakfast meeting. Lunch
meeting. Outside, homeless men
plead, Will work for food.

Absence

When you’re not here we
skip dinner, fall asleep with
the TV still on.

The next day

Undereye circles
purple as grapes, lids heavy
as harvest-ripe vines.

Can’t sleep 3 – Bubbe’s lament

Again you’re staying
up late. God forbid you should
worry about me.

Self-promotion

Too few syllables
to write about Blogs We Luv.
Click through and visit.

Word whore

I was first published
in Seventeen magazine
thirty years ago.

About October 10th

I’m unsure whether
joy or terror will greet the
news that I am live.

Tomorrow

Opportunity
is knocking. Finally, I
will open the door.

Unresolved

Today we act as
if nothing happened. Over
night a cold front passed.

Pride goeth

My new business cards,
bearing my new title, all
printed with typos.