Commentary

depends on the day; today:

the first show/snow of march.

we are proceeding

from winter to winterstill the windowsill

thick with icicles/gnarled spindly geraniums ancient

in human years. the soft

cat in her soft bed. the hard

hip at the hard (kitchen) counter, as always, all

stay and delay and nothing, and sometimes, just

nothingyet, and timesother:

nothingfuckingever.

nothingfuckingmore

(fuckingnoonenewnow)

(fuckingnoonenew!)

sat this

morning that

poem came

walking by. said: pup,

get back to breathing. said: shut up

and write this down:

it must be more spectacular in its absence!

(you must be more spectacular in your absence...)

mind strayed. i stayed

till the alarm went off. there is a hole

in the tree outside the (bedroom) window—into

which i sometimes

looks. aftertimes i finds: it is not

a hole

at all.