Strong Feelings

Calmness

yoga show
the elephants bowing
into crow pose

night meditation
the calmness of receding
waves

Anxiety

the lemon shivers
over my stretched hand
spoon race

Gossip

holidays end
the factory girls’ yield
of gossip

night pub
deaf men fingerspelling
gossip

Nuisance

elevated city
thick fog carries
the morning traffic

Excitement

xylophone
my child names
the colours

cut off kite
the sound of children
fading with it

year’s end vacation
every colleague throws
his plan at me

Sadness

ice box
your last word
resonates in me