From April 2022.

395.
more than A look
and let them keep looking
your eyes
A glance A smile A message
 
396.
those people
Everywhere pursuing Other people
a single shout in the dark

398.
in the flickering light
a thin smooth laugh
and
I’ll tell you something, he said

From April 2022.

391.
It always seems like nothing
it’s only A harmless little habit
of course it would seem like nothing
What are you afraid of?

392.
the lemons and oranges
dangled from a tree
frayed and despised

393.
there is safe here
blotched and blackened
But safe

394.
Welcome to Fourteen years ago
Look at the shopping bag
are you sure it was just that one time

From June 2022.

441.
this particular evening
the room in moonlight
the air close and pale

442.
It was cold
suddenly I was feeling
caught inside a dull secret
things that happened a long time ago

443.
think of
the invisible eyes who’d look at you
unperturbed and decisive
on a road at night

444.
there were limits to suspicion
I stepped high up into darkness
which of these signs was the one?

From June 2022.

437.
sprawled in carefully
indignant sleep
all afternoon on the couch

438.
trouble
trying to possess memory
for so long

439.
was it a waste of time
gathering the details
you would never know?

 
440.
how am I to
make sense of every variation of fortune
sorting things out
troubles the soul

From June 2022.

433.
There was no
inappropriate color for money
said the thief.

434.
an idol was found necessary
but I knew it was not
brave enough for when
the hell of rage would burn

435.
no rain for a while
and she didn’t explain how
she’d ruined the umbrella

436.
The disappointment
pure and simple
gliding off
costly

From June 2022.

429.
difficulties with the crossword
had boiled
many a head

430.
working with the
more exasperating people,
I have Given up

431.
I wasn’t the only person
sitting by herself
in a mirror

432.
Save them
hissed the stranger
in my head

From June 2022.

419.
an attentive chair
an inscrutable table
a good couch without frills

421.
The lively whispering night
the dark a candid chatterbox
charming a new ear

427.
I’m still the goddess
she whispered
look at the flowers

428.
open a secret door
inhibited hopes
come home as if on cue

From June 2022.

413.
It’s as if you were
a recipe for
very bitter eating
and the indigestion of love

414.
It looks like her
from the back
I’m sure I hear her giggles

415.
meet you in the attic
laughed the Old chair
to The new couch

416.
to get home
to prepare dinner
not to linger
not to disturb him ever

417.
lips curved a small smile
eyes confided a slow charm
Odd.

From June 2022.

408.
people talk so much
good solid outspoken smothering sound
Again I sit wedged between
loud drama and unpublishable gab

409.
dinner stared out of the kitchen window
eyes turned hard as marbles
A guest died. tonight.
good.

411.
I freeze her hard
straight frost crack and peel her
I was hurt. I said I had enough.

412.
say Nothing
stranger
No matter how angry You Are

From June 2022.

402.
she stood with herself
a careless ghost of the past
a small collection of old thoughts vanished

403.
There are significant funds
fast asleep
under one of the cushions

404.
her lips shrugged to one another
flickered into sulky silence
But tasting harm

 
406.
the knot
the not
The long
the small
the extinct