I don’t make lists,
have long collected other people’s
from Pioneer Supermarket
shoppers leave lists that are poems in their carts:
handwritten notes in no
particular order:
milk eggs butter butter milk eggs.
New Year’s maybe a list exception.
ten things I might
or might not do this year :
read more novels
meditate every single day
go to Sojo spa in Fort Lee
volunteer with new immigrants
learn Spanish
take a van to Patterson
buy a huge bag of pistachio nuts
stop thinking about healthy aging
go on a few trips
make a chapbook of poems
write an ending
for there’s a body in the lobby
where the older detectives
get married and decide to forget
about the murder
visit my mother’s friend Joan
her last remaining friend
write a book maybe titled
a sequel to god is a tree
god is people
ask everyone who reads these poems
to tell us what they want now.
More!....less!......both?
What I want is to get you a huge bag os pistachio nuts.
Much love to you and Peter,
Ellen