Cyberjunkie

I live for numbers.
Check my website stats hourly.
Page view addicted.

Rummage Sale

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

Unfaithful

Now I blog somewhere
else. A paid professional,
thousands read my work.

Psych kick

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

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.

See sun’s end

We’ve shut the windows.
Pulled out sweaters, pulled on socks.
A fall admission.

The next day

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

Word whore

I was first published
in Seventeen magazine
thirty years ago.

Unresolved

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