Not Here

I’m having a hard time
finding a poem today,
here, amid the calm and steady
working on a couple projects
and the alarming tug
of social media

Hours have rolled by,
the minutes marked
by the drumbeat of appliances,
me in my pajamas all day,
thinking of drifting toward bed.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 24, 2018

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