Pandemic Playground: Seesaw

There is no need to understand the source of this happiness.

Just this need to know the bearer of my darker gifts.

[LSS, 11/16/20]

The Flexible Skin of Language

The patient listens 

to her own voice 

and removes the bandages 

so she can go inside 

one more time

before the wound 

heals for good.

[LSS, 11/16/20] 

Transportation Devices

Passengers wait 

in a strange house 

for the missing chauffeur 

to arrive.

Out on the street, 

a different passenger 

boards a bus 

and finds the driver 

asleep on the floor.

Meanwhile, you forget 

to get off the train

when you reach

your destination

and end up back

where you began.

[LSS, 11/16/20]

Gale Watch

One by one

the seagulls peel

off the tarmac,

the body of the flock

a heavy plane

barely able

to take off.

[LSS, 11/16/20]