My spare bedroom holds
many possibilities
under all that junk.
Clean sweep
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Alone time
I burn candles and
incense. Maintain silence. Find
myself in nothing.
Protection
Soldiers wear helmets.
Women wear makeup, styled hair.
Our mode of defense.
Anticipation
Making travel plans,
like getting dressed for a date,
is a leap of faith.
Christmas tree lot
Sad orphans ripped from
the forest stretch out their limbs
pleading, ‘Take *me* home.”
Picking Christmas trees
Like speed dating, if
they make a good impression,
they come home with us.
Deal or no deal
TV’s “Fisherman
and His Wife” story for our
times. Unalloyed greed.
Otherworlds
Viriconium,
Gormenghast, Majipoor. Dark
journeys. Twisted dreams.
Weight watchers
On weigh-in day I’d
inhale helium if it
would make me lighter.
J’s sense of style
She’d buy Free People,
match and mismatch carelessly,
revel in oddball.
a haiku a day 