At 3 o’clock, for Karen M.
the walls tumble down & the voices turn arachnid
existing webs of worry moisten with the heat of losing focus
the ‘be in the moment’ ability turns terminal come fifteen hundred hours
so the drive home in the vehicle filled with teens is a travel through
a kind of hell through the pot-holed battlefield of Terrible Things in my brain
stop lights signals road rage roundabout when I arrive home my body
turns liquid & the spiders jump to the page for a last scrawl before exhaustion
takes control – and I let it
except today
today is different because three o’clock came at ten & she was there to hold
my heart as it slobbered on the table between us stuttering out its bloody contents
like spilled coffee & we laughed & we nodded & we ate & we whispered & we got serious about Everything & Everything didn’t hurt so much
thing is
three o’clock comes every day but must I let the walls tumble?
spiders are good luck & Terrible Things thrive unstoppable & I can choose
how to navigate my personal hells I can offer them up to poached eggs
& bacon & sisterhood
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 
Hi Vanessa, Yes, poached eggs and sisterhood! Three o’clock does come for all of us! The “ third hour” . And here comes a new variant ! Dr. Fauchi said that a virus will mutate if left to Run wild without the barrier of vaccines. Too many people refuse the vaccine. We may end up with a variant that defies the vaccine! Then what?
Anyway, the good news is that Christmas is “ soon to be here”. We all need “ a celebration “. It’s time!! All the best, Mary Ann
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