Hai Coo Coo, Princely
Star Kat bemused; patiently
Reminds, renews us.
© Karen Joyce
January, 2022
Hai Coo Coo, Princely
Star Kat bemused; patiently
Reminds, renews us.
© Karen Joyce
January, 2022
Racket player stretched
So thin, invisible. When,
Where will it break you?
© Karen Joyce
January, 2022
Trap door.
"Do not drift into despair"
Rather says.
Nexus.
Moments of clarity,
moments of despair
moments of hope.
Reprieve.
There's something next
Nirvana.
© Karen E. Joyce 2021
to the second Covid year
Dream of rusty parts,
caked, round, metal, hollow, grim.
The planet reels.
The conductor punches time.Hurried, then slows. Grace?
At rest, fear returns
My final companion:Then scuttles off leaving painAs its calling card.
A hungry, black cat.
© Karen E. Joyce 2021
Little by little
in the name of the holy
I will remember.
I’m not hearing any
And the son and the
Holy Spirit New England
don’t apologize.
© Karen E. Joyce 2021
Karen Joyce 5/31/21
At the Boston MFA French Film Festival. Always feel at home here. I used to hook school and hang out here on particularly bad days. They ...