2006/vehicle

Our vehicles side by side
on the mechanic’s racks,
not for maintenance but repair.
That’s how it is right now.
We spend the week in a hotel
while new floors are installed.
Back home we step in and out
of shoes at every door.
You wonder how long it will be
until we can relax and just live,
as I stick felt on chair legs
and monitor the cat.
I have been wondering
that for years.

2/27/06