maydays

location:environment
Tahsis: sunlight

happily once upon after work
day-dreaming' say-streaming' pound-doing'
I stare at a flag of a striped sunset
wearing a crown
asking the eternal question
poetry or laundry?
to fold or not to fold jack squat socks
future framework of a pieceworkers union
thought webs of co=op farms and greenhouses
but now
clocks ticking
neighbours yelling
sun fans across the sky
like a humming bird migration
the floors that won't sweep themselves
hearth full of soot and me without my dustpan
when the firebugs arrive home
in the whirlwind of news that follows
comparison stories, both piece and pain
the sharing of scores and pot wine
elementary mathematics etched on mindseyes
dinner and boardgames before magic hour
port of call chorus line burns wood fires
with the windows open,
shattered showers abound
temperate rainforests
burl over limestone caves
today I didn't go outside at all
except to the lawn to tend to domestic duties
like feeding the chickens and raking their shit
but soon this station gets departed from
preparations made, bags packed tightly
the clean up is upon us
prior only to being
on the road
again
to strike camp
somewhere else for a time.