Soliloquy

Nowadays I'm a semi-recluse.
often, I feel the need to retreat,
reverse yet further
into a temporary nest
of a woolgathering and
              imprecise brain.

It is feather-fluffing time,
time to watch squirrel's scamper
over a slack jawed presence,
to ogle thoughts from afar
as they fuzzily forage
                 after each other.

A wide Walnut tree,
spreads out of my imagination,
furry paws toy with cracked visions
       in their nutshells.

Nobody here, nobody phoning or
knocking,
Just a crow cawing on a branch
which might be (in truth) my right arm.

That limb always was the most
social
and gregarious part of me -

I often talk to myself with it.
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