Homeopath

I’m doing all the things 

I need to do today 

from the top rung of a ladder 

hidden in fog and mist and rain,

while all the things 

I said I’d do  

are ringing in my ears, 

so I pack my mouth 

with crushed cicada shells 

to end the senseless noise.

[LSS, 1/8/21]

Something You Can Draw with Chalk 

The heart and its four chambers,

a four-square playground court  

for a ball that’s always moving.

[LSS, 1/8/21]