and are you a good person

Dec 27, 2021

impossible

that little meme with the racoon that says

I’m sorry for being annoying

It will happen again

and we are stuck here

and everything is dead or dying

and the whole world feels like it has given up

a bit

for now

and yesterday there was a pigeon, a magpie, a parrot, a sparrow and a robin

the pigeon fought the magpie, or actually it was the other way around

then it cawed

calling for its mate to eat the peanuts

and the parrots hang jagged, too big for little bird feeders

the ones I am allowed

without getting complaints about the squirrels

but I loved the squirrels too

and you must remember the sun

and not get caught in loops

the beautiful ties not the cycle of fifths

the parrots are on both sides of the block

now all the trees have given it up

the sticks within sticks are exposed

the nests made of the trees within the trees

the living and the dead

and you did not see the stones this year

desire is both the trap and the hound

they just come to mind

these words

the right words

and all the things you have to do

to stay sane

to stay calm

and if you do them all the time

that’s just who you are now

Nina Power