through the window
comes in full-speed
from nowhere
slams and
gets tangled
in the woodgrain
of the table
as your hand moves unbidden
to seize the utensil,
and it doesn't
even occur to you
to wonder if this
is normal.
*
Once, life
was broke.
Then, it got to work;
life was
all business.
Now, it gets the joke—
and it calls itself
flirtatious.
*
The little girl
whose smooth hand
yours cradles
gazes up at you now
with a quizzical
look on her face
because she's either
too young
or too
something else
to grasp
what you mean
by "a hassle."
*
Ironically, if you want to see
the kinds of shapes
light makes
when it finally
slows to a halt,
all you have
to do is wait;
this could take
forever.
