'my eyes ..

   my eyes dim
to know fifty summers
   and several falls

bark, yorkies, like you
know what's out there

   the last of its kind
owl clip escaped
   from a hand that won't

without quite noticing it
i get chili dust on my Marketts record

   intruders
the toilet seat left up
   nephews-in-law

will your book on the Oscars finish
with the year the war started