Ersatz

i sit outside
uneasy in my chair
listening to familiar sounds
that never were quite clear
i know it should be
babies and cooking recipes
different kinds of
fabric and some sorority
but even as i know these
things i find in them
illusion
while sitting
here outside myself
uneasy in my chair.


Grandma Proses
Shirley A. Bender
Copyright © 1985