I've been sleep too long, but now I am at least half awake ...
I may want to lie still
And think about my choices.
- Rae Armantrout
I lie in late
beside my wife
listening to the first birds
of the third day of autumn.
When the bird song pauses
I place my legs over the edge
of our bed and contemplate
our day while the blood
settles in my flow pattern,
pump primed and working fine.
Bird song begins again.
I whistle back, hoarsely,
and my wife disturbs in bed.
ii
Which t-shirt will I wear today?
the Shakespeare quote,
the Beckett portrait, or
the tatty black one, the one
I call *Night Life in Corowa?*
iii
It's Tuesday, the day
the Country Women's Association
meets in the old red hall
opposite the IGA Supermarket.
My wife returns with
new Pelargonian plants to plant
and a new book of patterns,
aptly called CloselyKNIT
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All comments welcome.
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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