she was a good wife:
beautiful, honest, kind, soft - 
just like her silence.

a good wife

a quote of wisdom
makes it to school bulletin;
janitor reads it.

school bulletin

come every morning,
i open my eyes slowly, 
like i was trained to.

the phone’s rung twice now; 
i can hear it from the bath,
too naked to talk.

a brick in the wall -
an ant crawls into a crack;
becomes family.

in lonely disdain, 
a pulsating bitterness; 
utters a bad word.