Crazy Robin

Crazy robin has scarred all my windows

dirty bird footprints all over the glass

all summer he will tap and crash

each window a new threat

til he has exhausted himself

or found a lover

I Saw My Mother Dying

I saw my mother dying

Can recognize when someone is about to give up life

“That’s life” an old woman says at the library when the copy machine won’t copy

“That’s death” I say to myself

in between is limbo

Her strong bones frail now

meds keep her under

she wants more

skin pocked with injections

she doesn’t want to know me

what’s the point

she is dying

it can happen to anyone

at anytime

you don’t have to be old to die