Oh!

This is -

I find myself :
rather suddenly ill-fitting
and
just slightly off-kilter.
I feel a bit too  large  for who I was.
With - all this unexpected extra  s p a c e.

I wonder if I will feel too small when I am myself again.

Today, while walking, I was stopped
by a man with a scarf
and a multitude of questions.
I suppose that I may have been reciting.
It is a habit, one must understand.
Merely a murmuring of favored words
to keep me company.
I do not think it any more odd than people who talk to blue teeth.
(Really. What could one possible have to discuss with machinery ( Read more... )

When I woke up, there was a moment when I was frightened.
Not for myself.
(My! That would be quite ridiculous.)
But the Moon - the Moon moves away from the Earth an inch-and-a-half every year.

Did you -                  
did you know that?

It is slightly terrifying.
And I understand (I do!)
        I understand that nothing will happen for a long ( Read more... )

The library is quiet.
Quiet and calm and smells of paper and dust and  y e s t e r d a y.
I find it quite pleasant.

The children are quite pleasant as well.
Though their literature, upon occasion, contains rather befuddling situations.

For example:
Is the more relevant question of the  novel  the rightfully desired consumption of questionably- ( Read more... )

my my my!

(It has been some time since I have been up here.      
      It is much more peaceful down there, I must admit.)

And quieter.                                  
Pleasantly so.
(If that is not too hard to believe?)

I am, I believe, running behind?
Irrevocably (& regrettably) d e l a y e d.

Love of mine, if you would forgive me my ( Read more... )

( far away from the cold night air )