January micro 2023: 7

my Tarot client

speaks of her widowhood

and I too weep

*

ten years 

since he died —

by now

memories are both 

grief and joy

Sending a Signal

I swap 

the queen size bed

for a single –

telling the Universe: no,

I really don’t want company

Sorrow / Joy

Cold night, and you

not here to warm me.

I give thanks:

tonight you are not

lying alone in a nursing home,

you are not in a hospital ward,

nor are you next to me

in pain and troubled sleep —

you are free!