status update


Did you notice?
I focused on the good.
Attention is the only currency that matters.
I didn’t dwell on the pole run into
or the coffee spilled on pant and floor
or the many things that nearly drove me
back to the loving arms of my bed.


I found instead
a sister guiding me to the track
that would lead me to completing tasks.
I found help
available at the asking
and offered without it.
I found poetry that I can’t stand
not to read out loud
and growing louder
and grinning all the while.
And a place I can talk about all the things
that I’m not supposed to wonder at.


Tonight will be a full moon
and tomorrow a day with six digits of one.
And life keeps ticking
keeps clicking
keeps ricketing on.
And I stumble and surge forward
with my fingers fondling the dark
and I’m finding my way.
By god, I’m finding my way.