Hello, October; goodbye September for another year. For some of us, the march of time is the welcome process of growing up, while others (like me) are alarmed by rapidly advancing days.

Where I live, this year’s September had more days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit than ever, by a large number. Technically, it’s now Autumn. Climatologically, it’s not even close. And some rain, please! (Welcome to Texas)

Personally, it has been a difficult and challenging month for me with family issues demanding my attention and needing my practical and emotional participation. Some of that drama, fear, and heartache are rolled into my poems. But not as much as I would have expected. I did not like the shit storms at all, but I was grateful for the emotional fodder. For me, this is often less craft and more about the art of breaking things. I do like the feeling of being useful and having a purpose.

Thirty days hath September and I wrote 30 more poems. I wrote more on some days because when Muse speaks, I write, but those extras don’t count for the dailies. The titles of the daily poems were:

1. Sit on my lap Forever
2. Disrespectful Dress
3. See Bugs Try
4. When It’s Real
5. Sometimes, It is Something
6. Sit Up
7. Monet at Kimbell
8. Pissing Inappropriately
9. Boys Only
10. Watching the World go by (standing by a busy interstate highway)
11. Pat’s Day
12. Old Hank
13. The Genocide of Humanity
14. Those Tears Count
15. Delicate
16. Longer Nights
17. Bureaucratic Control
18. Skinny Short People
19. Best and Worst
20. Under the Red Veil
21. Barter
22. So They Say
23. Global Baking
24. No Innocents
25. Cutthroat
26. The Young Turks
27. Good Enough
28. The Ultimate Ultimatum
29. Prim’s not Proper
30. My Coffee

Look both ways, but what matters most is that it is officially Fall,
the third season. A beautifully decorative time of year.
While we should always mind the gaps, we should also enjoy the time.