Fleeting days
Restless nights
Cluttered corners
Of my mind
Half me here
Half me there
All of me wanting
to be elsewhere.
Unfinished essays
Unread books
Bits of work
In every nook
Hair needs washing
Face needs threading
Wear a hat
that’ll sort that
Body to scrub
Bath to have
Never smile
Force a laugh
Clothes to wash
Muscles to toughen
cloth and brush
dishes and ovens
Butterfly tea
snailshell toast
ground beetle gravy
over duck roast
unfinished talk
with my other half
rats scuttling
fore and aft.
Scatterbrain mind
deadlines at large
February looms
I was born in March.
Half me here
Half me there
I’m all over the place
I am a March Hare!
I am going MAD!
