2025

VACUUMING

The comforter, stable for most of the fall
And the new year, has found a new place to rupture.
The movie was peculiarly reluctant to satisfy --
Clever, for sure. But peevish, alienatingly so.

A reassuring stability I find myself surprised
To value second only to ecstatic involuntary shivers --
The comfort of the living room and the spacepod.
I don't mind the light but the noise all night's a bit much.

There are feathers all across the edge of the room.
In twenty minutes I'll preheat the oven for bread.
For ten dollars you can get five hours control
Of telescopes in Australia, Brazil, and the Canary Islands.