Gone are the cozy blankets
Of coffee shop sounds and smells
Humanity's press of nearness
Avoided lest grimness rise higher
One bedroom apartment sparse
Two plants
Eleven books
Vegetables
Quiet street drifts in open windows
Snatches of the same conversation
Calm dogs lead nervous people
Seeing their neighborhood slowly
Among the trees I ponder
Through strange times values prism
The moment and the future
The mind and the act
Reason's thoughtful melody
Resounds across the flat
A single mind's repose
Between vigorous repasts
Simple life made narrower
Complexity fades away
Valuing what is as is
Willing not a change
Roman Ryan 