drug residue

1. Eggs
while cracking two eggs
in the sink
then dropping the shells
in the pan
I wondered about memory
in the moment

2.Breakfast of one's (They said)

one egg

one piece of rye krisp

one cup of tea

one dozen Milky Way

3. Do I need these keys ?
on a lanyard around my neck
i get a ride to the store
and leave my lanyard in his car

later; ring ring the phone
"you left your keys in my car"
"I can't drive today, so I don't need them"

"I'll drive over tomorrow and get them"
"is late afternoon okay?"
"okay"

4. Planning
for your liver eat only carbs
for your diabetes early only protein 
for your mental health eat candy

winter in the life of a tree

The trees are sleeping now

the warming sun  gone   

the days and nights turn cold

causing leaves to flee

dancing and twirling

in the gust and bursts and dust devils

finally resting against the fence

never to attach again

branches have  memories of leaves

that embraced them in the spring

and danced with them all summer

time changes everything

from bud green to rust brown  

fleeting  attachments for the leaves

merely frivolous flirtations

thoughts of forever for the branch

The end is always the same

Time changes everything

nothing is permanent

the branch wont be bare long