Flashback

There you are 

looking at me

taking a picture 

of you looking 

at me as 

you see for 

the first time 

and have yet 

to learn to 

guard your true 

expression.

[LSS, 12/1/20]

What Part of This Story Don’t You Understand?

I can’t, I won’t

name the yous who

people this world.

Some egos would love

to have some names 

attached, but I love 

to have some privacy 

in which to consider 

the discrete possibility

that you are really me.

[LSS, 12/1/20]

Nature Guide

“Come back, come back,”

tomorrow calls.

“You’re going the wrong way.”

Night turns on its heel

and follows me into the dark 

where I am looking for that 

place, that time I knew 

before I heard the dead 

certainty of my own inner voice.

[LSS, 12/1/20]