window barking
a six-in-the-morning pupper
sitting on my head
© Rachel Green July 2022
boxes of past treasures
gathering dust under the eaves
each one a past life.
paints and canvas from the artist
unused, going dry;
martial arts weapons and clothes
some turned illegal since I bought them
all those swords, sai, nunchucks;
boxes of books from the writer
fiction, poetry of lives further past,
notes for future adventures.
every seven years, a new person
with new interests
and nothing to show for a life
lived long.
© Rachel Green July 2022
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