Living in the Wind

By Peter Halstead

take the pictures off the wall
and put away the liquor
batten down the hall
and hide the clicker

grab the china and the plates
everything you see
all our real estate
is such a mystery

the moon a bit ornate
the broken past a fable
the future out of date
eternity a label

sleep and night in windy motion
in our bedroom’s blowing ocean

May 7, 2017, Holawa Place
November 20, 2017, Rosebud
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