04-23-2015, 10:31 AM
Lost
She lifts her head and sees the row of bottles
or rather, notices the different necks,
the sun diffusing through the blinds as specks,
a ladybug that chores along. She dawdles.
There is a tiger tattooed on the wall
and three ceramic monkeys on a shelf
and on the night stand next to a stuffed elf
an unfilled scrip for phenobarbital.
She lifts her head and sees the row of bottles
or rather, notices the different necks,
the sun diffusing through the blinds as specks,
a ladybug that chores along. She dawdles.
There is a tiger tattooed on the wall
and three ceramic monkeys on a shelf
and on the night stand next to a stuffed elf
an unfilled scrip for phenobarbital.