every morning before
dawn a poetry book
to wonder contemplate
comments delivered
by their next work
week all will be done
passed on for usage
past shelved art
return from bathroom
pick up book into bed
side light spy purple
ink pen line across
thumb ball palm base
not wrist no feeling
no recollect of when
during journal writing
place poetry book down
not put down pick up
journal again pen
write away white
space as best i can
no pick-up—cannot
do that—no pickup
in apart parking space
melting snowbank
against fence no
hedge face-high
yellow pickets lean
pushed too hard
weakened divide
between lots rather
box garden growing
on cracked asphalt
under manitoba maple
or sample patio
with chairs and shade
not baby barn full of tools
implements trailer on
blocked wheels places
to go nothing to pull
