Exhaustion

The point when the will

To go on is eclipsed by

The need to lie down.

Lawyer Deportment Lessons following Annual Review

Keep your voice down, cry

Wolf only when wolves circle

And stop the tall tales.

Essential but most
Difficult of words to say
To and for oneself.

Sore Throat

Yelling reason at

Cresting tides and crashing waves

Strains more than the voice.

Obscenities screamed from the office next door

Gentle reminder

To not work in a panic

And to always breathe.

First Ocean Swim

Turns fingernails blue

Forces shocked breath from lungs

Brings me back to life

Sunday

Too short a free day

Rain, a hot bath and hot tea

A mind tries to still.

Today

A tentative thought

Pushed by an exhausting week

Toward expression