Monthly Archives: July 2026

Happy

Up early, playing
guitar, trying to get my fourth finger
to unfreeze and stop the
clicking for even
a few minutes. I’m happy,
for what that’s worth.

I get up to go and check on
the cat who’s sleeping on the kitchen
counter, since she’s eaten already.
I am unsteady on my feet, my
left foot in particular, but then it
catches hold and here I go. I’m happy;
it seems to be worth little.

I’m done and I limp and fall back
into my easy chair here in
the living room, a controlled fall,
whatever that means. Sigh
softly, decide to sit very still
for a bit or longer; much to do
today or nothing at all. I’m happy,
if you can call this that.

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onward,
T


Disappearing Into The Woods

To sit without entertainment
or reason beforehand
and then to turn away
and go elsewhere,

to go to a spring in a surprising ledge and drink
ice-cold water and not care about
origins or what it might be bringing
into you.

There are reasons to go
into nearby woods as if there was
nothing to worry about: after all,
there isn’t.

Anyone could pass there
and not be found until too late
for anyone to care more than
a little bit;

other than wringing their hands
over your disappearance, other than
searching for you and then
abandoning that search

and letting you be, leaving you
to be a sweet pang of sadness;
other than that, why not
let you be? It won’t matter,

after all, to you; it won’t matter
after a small time to those
who knew you. In a crisp
New England summer,

in a not unexpected twist,
you’ll be gone. Your loved ones
will turn away after a bit
and leave you there, as you wished.

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onward,
T