1
rain changes direction and intensity
yesterday furious
last night
drops thick and humming like locusts
this morning
the rain awake
remembers something, forgets something else
creating
rounds of wet sounds
wailing up and quieting down for hours
2
tiny lizard tangled in my hair
found near the bed, dead.
Placed him outside - a wide, wet funeral
3
my homeostasis
less
and less
until blessed with
loss or balance
4
my incomplete portrait -
(age-related )
increased risk of wet leaks*
or absorbing too much of life**
5
gulls flying in rain
again
and again
staying in
for two days
testing the terrace's wind -
though dirt blown,
nothing's flown away
6
the repitition of language
in numbers
on paper
in sound
7
what wake my life
will leave behind
is blindly just this,
moving toward
nothing,
but an hour
and an our
that awaits us all
*macular degeneration
** hereditary hemochromatosis (HFE-related), elevated creatinine levels
