Another weekend gone but this time I really don’t want to be at work today. I picked up a chocolate lab this weekend. His name is Zappa Davis and he was born October 10th. He is most beautiful with his cute waddle and green eyes. I will post a photo here soon. It feels very warm within my large house with this added soul. So, since this weekend was such a positive in a land of negatives lately I will post a happy poem. Please enjoy.

Night In

“How are you?” she types
over the internet.
I respond – “Fine, the same.”

Mindless chit chat follows.
We used to be close.
Many times we laid in bed
naked wet from sex.

Now we just type fantasies
about our past nights together.
We say our goodbyes and I
close my laptop.

Decide to bath. I run the water hot
don’t bother for the tub to fill,
climb in Place a towel between
my shoulders and cold porcelain

I lay naked, hot, sweating, thinking
of poems that I should be writing
soon they will be lost with
my draining bath water

The heat from the bath has pushed
me out and I slide into bed still wet
turn on some classical music and
begin to write you this poem.

Eric D. Potter