HIGH SUMMER LISTENING

 HIGH SUMMER LISTENING

        Can’t sleep. I walk the shadows on the floor.

            --Eliot Weinberger, The Life of Tu Fu

My wife comes to bed talking of the fires.

So many homeless on the reservation.

I have clothes and the people don’t have a thing.

There’s a place we can take them what they need.

We’ll do this in the morning.

Jim Bodeen

24 June 2024