AKA
Common sense,

For a sick, injured One spiraling downward,
Drowning fitfully, painfully ...

Ungainfully."
~ Twittering

"Quoof ~
There's a sparrow on your roof!"
~ Folly

"... He'll pace allright but then look carefully

at how, reaching the edge, he turns around...

.... that quick step

revolving on the one hind leg, bringing the other down just as
the swivel ends, then giving over all the weight

to one front paw, onto each pad distinctly it would

seem, then onto number four and he's
around headed the other way

again."

~ Jorie Graham,
From "The Sense of an Ending,"
From "Erosion"

~ * canal

spread

beauty ~ !

"A bite to eat,
A late supper,
After the Hearse delivers the dead body

To the Undertaker.

A Wake ...
A Voyage

Undergone, undertaken,

Not
Avoided,

Nor
Slumbered through,

Through
The World of Grief & Post ~ Traumatic.

My journey, a pagination,
A bound voyage,
A signed, numbered, limited edition.

A Pageant,
A Coronation.

The Matter,
Indeed,
A Great Matter to Mourn.

And afterward,
Who cares for One left,

The One Forlorn?"
~ Twittering

"Whose forsworn
Duty to care

For,

But forsook?

Who's cock,
Where's that pig, that swine?

Have
All lost
Common sense?"
~ Folly