maybe it’s the way i’m sitting
at work
i think
trying to rationalize away
the throbbing pain
in the back of my neck
the front of my head
it’s certainly not stress
since there’s little be stressed out
about
at work or home
and right now
(knock on wood–hear me, o
forest spirit, o dryad, dweller
bark and wood pulp)
or it could be
my obsessive checking of
the phone
or my sinuses
–my sini?–
but how does that account
for the neck
and what i want
is a cool dark room
and quiet
and maybe some music
but low enough
to think it’s the neighbors
playing something i like
Words and Feathers 