It's kinda cool how when life is normal
rainy days make me lethargic and unmotivated.
But when life is hard and I'm struggling
rainy days are the greatest comfort,
as if the earth is crying with me
saying that I'm allowed to feel it all

My friends told me

They didn't want me anymore

I scare them you see

They never understood me

I tried to send them away

They promised to stay

What happened to promises?

Now they've all gone away..

I can sit alone at school

Every day

I write the little poems
Memory, place, rhyme
I don't chant the sutras
I just pass the time

Bangkok motorcycle taxis
Gliding in the rain
Tokyo to Kyoto
On the bullet train

55 and falling
American despair
Politics Portends
Highwater Everywhere

Lawrence Hall, HSG
Mhall46184@aol.com

                     The First Barn-Jacket Morning in Autumn

Dawn – windy and cold
The first barn-jacket morning
Wild geese singing south