Likely high water mark
and I’m bereft.
Who’s going to answer
for this success? 
I got here on a back or two
and it hurts
me.  Hurts
more because I’ve been
lazy getting up off the mountain
now that I’m up.
Who were they?
Damned,
I can’t remember.

recent developments:
the sheets on the clothesline
speaking in soft thwaps

and weeds still pretty enough
to not annoy

old leaves now almost gone to soil

the first cigar in months feet stretched up on the stoop
no jacket

spent an hour thinking of this
not because of tension or struggle

but because it felt good