No lie — it is the cruelest month

15. Halfway point

the middle of April
only 15 poems to go
and i’m running out

of topics
just now I started to type
how tired I am of

teaching when I really
want to go on about
how sick I am of being

me when all the things
I used to believe I did
well taste suddenly

like sand
clearly it’s time for radical
reflection

redirection
as if I’m standing halfway
to the end

looking back at my tracks
and wondering too late
where I’m going