Not Today

No poetry today
or yesterday
or the day before
unless by an arrangement of lines like this
poetry happens.

My son is graduating from Middle School
my daughter
preparing a greek feast
for her 6th grade compadres
I go back to work today
with two new knees
after 3 months of blissful unproductivity

I will be sitting silently
soon and contemplating
imagining what silence sounds like
looks like
what deceptions can I find in it
silence which leads to poetry
which starts in a place of nothing
and everything