Category Archives: Aging

Mirror Image

Posted on June 29, 2025 by sputterpub

I’m guessing that she never really meantthose careless words. Some hours afterward,I thought it would be foolish to resentcomparison insulting and absurd.The other’s not alike – if there’s a bentfor acting like my mother, what I heardis incorrect. The case … Continue reading →

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Dream Date

Posted on June 27, 2025 by sputterpub

I woke from Wednesday’s dream at 3:15,and spent some minutes savoring a bit,remembering exciting chat betweenmyself and a companion who seemed fitto self-reveal and seek appropriatedescriptions of my preference and eschewal.I rose to consciousness and had to quit,but hope another … Continue reading →

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Obsessional

Posted on June 22, 2025 by sputterpub

I met the man when I was seventeen.We argued while our magnetism drewtogetherward, and built some thing betweenus we called love that neither shrank nor grew.In age three seasons older, he had fewideas but cleaved to them. His passing strangeattracted … Continue reading →

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Hot Home Yoga

Posted on June 21, 2025 by sputterpub

So chilly here this morning, though it’s June,I fire up the fireplace. I knowit will be warm inside this afternoon,but want to practice yoga now – the flowand pose and breath will make this body gomore flexibly, and lubricate my … Continue reading →

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Indigestion

Posted on June 20, 2025 by sputterpub

I’m still digesting lunch from yesterday.This processing is not about the food.I spent the time exposed to a displayof fundamental blinded attitude.The stories heard served only to conveyrestricted sight and plot ineptitude.I marveled what was then is still what is,relieved … Continue reading →

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inVested

Posted on June 19, 2025 by sputterpub

Of late I find it’s easier to walka little longer not desiring rest.I say it here, cause I don’t want to talkto friends unless I hear sincere request.To speak about my health there’s no behest,but I’ll record a hint I’m … Continue reading →

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CritiScope

Posted on June 18, 2025 by sputterpub

It’s odd how often people I know welldescribe and criticize peculiar traitsthey find in others, which they’d like to quell,but miss the obvious that implicates.The selfsame qualities which in them dwellenable recognition. Wisdom waits,and I’ll bet I don’t have immunity.I’ll … Continue reading →

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Divulgence Indulged

Posted on June 17, 2025 by sputterpub

Loquacious as a child and a teen,and even in her 20’s, more than less,she spoke her mind, aloud, and didn’t meanoffense, but also wouldn’t self-suppress. She learned some modulation as she aged,externally at least, and grew to knowhow bootless is … Continue reading →

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Settling on Stillness

Posted on June 12, 2025 by sputterpub

Like any animal, I note what moves.No matter if it’s predator or prey,attention’s caught by motion and behoovesat least alertness. Mostly I obey,but evolution sometimes disimproves,and veers from wisdom’s route so far away,I am resisting instinct’s pattern, tillI reap the … Continue reading →

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10 More Blocks

Posted on June 11, 2025 by sputterpub

I haven’t paced so far without a restin many months. I cannot recollectthe last time, and I never would have guessedit could be quite this easy. I’d expectto feel my knees – I wear an 8-pound vest –but I am … Continue reading →

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