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Often I hesitate
Wondering
What is the right thing to do
Periodontal surgery
For instance
Elective
Toothy
But what does anyone know
About bacteria?
More than me
But perhaps not that much
Listen to Dostoevsky
While puttering around
A quiet apartment
Or try to focus long enough
To put my body in positions
In a row
That one might consider yoga
Hesitation
Murmuration
Wishing to be among starlings
Sweeping forward and leftward
Yet cherishing the accidental aloneness
Write more poetry
Or eat all the cookies
That just arrived in the mail
Perhaps just a nibble
And then trash them
Wasteful?
Not so much as the sugars
Lay waste to the sleep
Paradoxes all
These insignificant choices
Yet a day adds up
The bakery pumpkin seed bread
One loaf
One hour
A choice filled with po'er
Napping in sunshine
Wondering
Almost missing
Coming back to the beginning
And in fact not afraid