Winter Listing

There is somebody in the room

They entered the house uninvited

I do not know their name

I cannot be sure if they are welcome

It was rude not to knock

But sometimes conformity is a drag

Just let yourself in old friend

But unwelcome news we don’t need here

Just luck and a bit of light please

To warm our hearts

From the winter gloom

Please come in old friend

Come take my hand

Dance and flicker light filigree

Expect the tracery to follow us home

It is winter a memorial

Keep eat safe

it knows

treat open hearted

Surgery

In your face death

Skip lines

The Para text

The keeping guards

That close into your fist as you do everything

While you remember nothing

Like a skipping dvd

Like all that junk piled up in the back

Like the very idea of your mind

As a dump

a thought flamed up 
now becomes

A mud slide

Like the one that very nearly washed Oprah away

It was on the news today

And you thought it would all go away

It re-enters

Like some folk fool

Face pressed against the glass

Half full

Half fool