Hitchcock Lake

I am tired of travelling.
   Charlotte
   looks for duck eggs
   in the lake
   and finds them.

I am tired and drinking black bitter coffee at the kitchen table.
    Charlotte
   water cold
    ankles blue
    picks up
    sticks & stones
    & chips of glass
    collage.

Basket patterns my eyes haze.
House plants strain for sunlight.
Days been another all day grey.
Just put out another cigarette.
   Charlotte
   rolls up her pants
   crazy woman
   before trees bud.