SARGASSO


on forgetting dust bins

'Writing my poems, I forgot the dustbins'

 Jean Rhys

sometimes the writing
is because
there are dust bins which
ought to be forgotten:
the walls of what is considered
life must be pushed
into a new shape.

but mainly
one hand and one
here i am mother
here i turn again
here is a new side of this person
which must be thought of. .
did i know i could. .?
happens so often

I must
must write.
in between poems
laugh and make soups
and stack the garbage right.
poems lie next to the stove
rising and waiting
for my next moment
when, emboldened by mastery
of simple things,
the layers of a word
can properly be faced
(no fleeing to the page).