I'm sharing another book with ovarites - a new year's gift! I paste one of the poems below (and will post two others in more appropriate other circles); the whole thing can be downloaded here:

https://www.chriswind.net/wp-content/EBOOKS/dreaming of kaleidoscopes - chris wind.epub

(for my brother)

I

with a grunt of irritation you condescend to be interrupted and move your chair back a bit so i can crawl under your desk (the one dad built special for you now that you're at university) so i can dust the baseboards as is my job (i've already done the rest of your room)

i'm quiet careful not to disturb because it's hard stuff, important stuff you're doing (i'm still only in high school but you're at university now it must be harder you're getting only 60s) i turn around in the cramped space on my hands and knees and see your feet

i think about washing them

i think about binding them

II

the guidance counsellor pauses then discourages "philosophy's a very difficult field" and i thought (no, not then, later) i thought, she's telling the kid who has the top marks in the school it's too difficult?

III

it's true i just find it easier besides, compared to business philosophy is such a bird course

no, that's a lie: i'm smarter and i work harder– while you're out with your friends friday nights i'm at work because my summer job didn't pay enough to cover the whole year and while you're watching tv i'm at work (at ten o'clock after six hours of lectures and just as many of typing and filing) i move the set so i can crawl into the corner to dust the baseboards you lean and yell in irritation because i'm in your way

because i'm in your way