January 10, 2024

my life is a hooded woman with ruby red lips




leopard printed fluorescent jacket 
adjacent fluorescent bag shouldered
beside a bus stop's corner crumbled 
like a coastline or an old tooth filling
snow scurries in a hurry to arrive unlike
the bus orange stiped barrels direct 
flakes that descend diagonally like 
my life is a hooded woman with ruby red 
lips hastening down a cracked walk 
carries a caged orange tabby and I see 
that Judy is torn with disbelief.