Tagged: move
summer seconds move
summer seconds move
like molasses while the days slip
through like grains of sand
.
20220731:2017
y
carrying home new
carrying home new
books, with a freshly printed
library card in
your pocket, is a rare reward
for leaving behind all you’ve known
.
20220319:1652
y
on day four hundred
on day four hundred
and forty-nine, inviting friends
to warm up our new
home – a luxury, and so much
gratitude that we’re still here
.
20210529:2207
y
the robin who made
the robin who made
her nest in dad’s hibiscus
syriacus caught
a whiff of clean laundry airing
on mama’s clothesline, moved north
.
20210511:2113
y
putting things away
putting things away
takes time and energy – we
enter week three with
our negotiation skills
intact, unpacking, restoring
.
20200321:1739
y
looking for something
looking for something
in the middle of spring and
unpacking is as
humdrum as finding something
when searching for something else
.
20200310:2340
y
on day two, it felt
on day two, it felt
like the messiest of all
vacations, waking
up in a different place to
call home, unpacking, unpacking
.
20200308:2325
y
on the morning
on the morning
after, there was less
light when we awoke
at five, right back to
unpacking after a
move, more
light in every
corner where boxes
continued to be
lost, then
found, the same
amount of light
in our hearts, having
made it this
far, cityslicking
.
20200307:1836
y
one day before the
one day before the
move, hearts and
minds are almost
ready, everything
that owns us
are not
.
20200305:0718
y
the corporations
the corporations
will always find us first, before
anyone else can
rattle our address off the
tip of their tongues, lick a stamp
.
20200304:0710
y
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