Vaccination Blues

Arms ache at the injection sites 

and heavy keys refuse to unlock 

the book.  Domesticity is a phantasm

here on the frontier.  There is more 

to do than wait for morning.

There is more.  

[LSS, 9/29/20]

Star Gazing in Deer Season

The first commuter bus of the day 

wends the valley below, loaded 

with regulars and off-island strays 

and a drowsy driver imagining 

an erotic ending to the dream 

his alarm wouldn’t allow him 

to complete. I can hear him 

not seeing the buck in the road, 

and I can see Orion 

dropping his useless bow.

[LSS, 9/29/20]