Negative Energy

She says,

I prefer not to surround myself
with negative people,
with negative energy

as she listens over earbuds to her eclectic
music archive:
Nirvana,
Beethoven,
Miles;

as she browses through the extensive
poetry collection on her Kindle:
Frost,
Sexton,
Plath;

doing this as she sits alone on the sofa
in the coffee house
under the reproduction
of

The Starry Night,

painted by Van Gogh
from a memory of the view
out the window of his sanitarium.

Tags: poems, poetry, meditations