A new covid variant.

What does it mean?

Is meaning meaningful?

We find love, if not meaning,

In ordinary places.

It sustains and nourishes.

And the “big questions” go unanswered.

November 29, 2021

(revised)

The days grow shorter,

The air is colder.

So is the river.

It’s fall.

Different upstate.

Dark is darker;

cold is colder.

The seasons are not 

muted by lights, traffic,

packed subways and buses.

Running out of time;

I’m pressing, knowing there are 

but a few days left.

I feel it on the river.

Mistakes made,

Lines tangled,

Trees caught,

Light fading.

November 1, 2021