Thursday, December 28, 2023

Reading

if I could find a place that delivers food to my bedroom

I would live there.                                                   and slip my grateful cash beneath the door                                                 

every inch of my bed 

would be designated as accommodation for me and the cats


comfortable chair

potable water,

a soaking tub 


why have I not thought of all this sooner?


novels and memoirs delivered on demand

conversations happen by text or phone 

but not too much phone, please


for there shall be no spoil 

to this peaceable realm


visitors, (little demons) may leave messages on squares of paper 

sent through a scrim 

of winter light below


please and thank you’s accompany

essential communication

overnight stays are 

out of the question

~~~

I have gone away 

you know it won’t be forever 

I’ve left for a land stumbled upon perchance

this hut on the tundra

my Narnia