Observation - June 8th, 2023, Thursday

the day is bright

the air filled with dust

 

bulldozer grading gravel

outside my window

 

…beep…beep…beep…

the sound of the alarm 

 

Observation - June 7th, 2023, Wednesday

it is warm in the apartment

 

I turned the cooling unit off last night

now the air is hot and stale

 

there is the stink of musty cloth

something sour in the room

 

Observation - June 6th, 2023, Tuesday

there was a sudden silence

as the news channel buffered

and the steam shovel

outside my window…

…thirty feet away, stopped

pounding the building

stopped shaking

for a moment

there were no footsteps above me

only the soft noise of fans…and

the air conditioner humming

in the kitchen, blowing cool air

 

if the birds were speaking

I could not hear them

I could not hear them

in the sudden silence

 

we—all, just listening

together in the quiet