Talked Out of a Poem

I am muse-walking,
~~ writing a poem.
The phone rings -

it’s my pal.

Something my mouth says
makes us both laugh.

At the same time,
one of my hands
is searching for the image
I was just about to find,
before the cell phone fractured it.

"Yea come over I’m doing nothing."

I am almost touching a black cat
in a dark room,
almost see it evaporating
on the threshold of nowhere.

We exchange ‘see-yer’ lingo.

Alone again,
my mind reverts to being
a heat-seeking sea anemone.

Sadly, the unfinished poem
has turned into a small owl,
perched on a thin tree
in the Andes.
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August 16, 2022 at 2:13 AM
Hahaha! Poet in crisis ~ it’s good actually to have our muse be elusive sometimes. Why fret? Enjoy the game of hide and seek in the vast void :)
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