Now Again

Before we know it it’ll be November 4th.

Then November 5th.

Then Thanksgiving.

Then Christmas.

Wait, back up to Halloween.

Okay, Halloween. 

Then Nov. 4th.

Then Christmas.

Then Valentines’.

Then Easter.

Then the last day of school.

Then the first day of school.

Then now again.

The Librarian

i

She may be wearing a sweater

and fending off homeless men

while somewhere a college girl

is guiding tourists through caves

and talking bat guano

and somewhere else far far away

a sad but happy little old man

who lost everything and everyone

to the great tsunami

is about to throw an orchid out to sea.

The sun is shining and I feel a bit old.

But mostly young.

ii

In the oceans fish are doing what fish do,

oblivious to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae et al.

I am in the quiet of my house.

I might listen to Rush Limbaugh. 

I might clean the leaves out of the pool.  Or not.

I will most certainly do my dishes, brush my teeth,

shower and put on the last of my sunscreen.