Words II

lazy sunday - cool breeze
dancing with sunlit
dappled wood and the man -
bleary of eye,
fogged of mind -
stands
in the brightness
without,
wallowing
in the darkness
within.

muttering
polite half-responses
to the day; to the neighbor
raking
down the gravel drive
with one hand,
reading the paper
with the other.

cheery chatter
of spring and warmer
weathers - smoke tossed
to dirt and Bones - wasted
by yesterday's words
slides back
to his prison -
his words.

_{(For a friend :: 04-11-2010)}