SOLAR ECLIPSE

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21iht-eddas.html

Make your wish!

Closing down

I am closing down
taking a break
retreating
leaving
shutting down
going in

We are not the things that happen to us.

sadness

the sadness
overwhelmed me
it has been some time
since i have felt
this slow
by pain
don't ask me
i don't know
i can't answer
maybe tomorrow
i can say the words
i miss you
maybe tomorrow
i can consider
how much i love him
today
i just need to
go in
and survive

sunday morning

The light was confused
Bright like a sunrise on the ocean
But white like the light of a downpour
I woke quietly this morning
And walked tenderly over the
moaning hard wood floors
The deep red carpet
Muzzled my footsteps
bouncing around the apartment
On my tip toes
I didn’t want to wake the downstairs
Neighbors
It isn’t fair that I wake so early on a Sunday morning
Fiona’s morning baby gibberish
Comes through the window
With a sea of buzzing air conditioners
Stuck in the sides of buildings
Like sebaceous cysts
the cool of an undecided rainfall
breezes through the apartment