feet hanging off a dirty rooftop
strumming a blues as the rain starts
thinking of you
4 October 2013
Oak Street
Category: Haiku
head thick as mortar
autumn air warm through open windows
first night in new home
dog asleep on a beanbag
cool air slinks in the kitchen door
I sit typing under the stopped fan
29 September 2013
State College, PA
sunshine iced tea bagel
“I Saw Her Standing There”
Green Fig in July
trudge trudge trudge
slip trudge trudge trudge slip trudge:
Albany blizzard
no two are alike
as they fall from the winter sky:
poisoned birds
my voice echoes
through the empty house:
leaving in winter
woke up with a sore throat
dreading a cold during moving time
:slept on cold floor
all my muscles are tired
I lifted the mattress onto the car by myself
buoyed by unexpected springlike warmth
I stepped on the ice
it turned out to be a deep, shoe-soaking puddle
(this is and is not a metaphor)
heavy boxes shift
my footing loose on icy driveway
:keeping my balance
flooded sidewalks
walking on the glistening asphalt:
February thaw
how it ends:
a winter breeze stirs the curtains
no one is coming
walking in the street
cars passing too closely:
icy sidewalks
ice on the driveway
inside, spicy noodles
and the warmth of conversation