Left behind

What’s necessary?
The triage of memory.
A pyre to the past.

Packing to evacuate

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

San Diego fire 2

Her view from the hill
– once so fine in good weather –
just blackened landscapes.

San Diego fire

Anne emails to say
smoke plumes rise like shrouds of loss.
Below, hell ablaze.

Disbelief

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

Domestic engineer

Today computers
obsess me. (I must go back
to baking cookies.)

Morph

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

Online

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

Writer’s block

Some days the words spread
smoothly. Other days they stick,
like peanut butter.

Varmints

Squirrels have eaten
my pumpkins. They eschew fall
negate Halloween.