Oct 3 Days of Awe Continue
Although it is raining although our President remains
although there are floods and tornadoes even on an island
in Ireland where there have never been floods and tornadoes
although today is Thursday not Friday although we are not
yet on the way to the film festival in Mystic Connecticut although
my holiday honey cake is gone and we are almost out of olive oil
although in my dreams last night I might have seen a monkey
although I need more specificity in my new short story manuscript
a certain kind of specific detail (she would never wear brown shoes
especially if they were flat) although I'm missing a folder of poems
they could be anywhere although the apartment smells of apples
although I haven't given away my travel books from 20 years ago
haven't watched any of the POVs I've saved haven't yet read
the new Salman Rushdie there's always a still:
still the Days of Awe continue and I will listen to Leonard Cohen
appropriate enough for the Days of Awe and meet a friend
for lunch to talk about what we might possibly do together and I watch
Elizabeth Warren's poll numbers climbing and meet a stranger in an elevator
who says Don't Worry About Bernie I had two stents a month ago
and I open a holiday card from a woman named Sunny who I haven't seen
for years and liked a lot and have a new Israeli novel from the library called The Liar
to read when I come home and tonight is Thursday which always means
tomorrow for sure is Friday and we will go to Mystic Connecticut and see
movies and Peter's movie and a small pretty town I've only seen once before.