Macular Degeneration

Puddles of black reach across my sight First the left eye, then the right After the struggles and the fight Each day becomes eternal night When seeing matters less and less Blindness is no longer bleakness No more contrast, no more starkness We grow accustomed to the darkness

Stars

Sun rises somewhereAs I sink in black velvetTheir stars are fading

Locket

Fingers try to closeAround the open locketBefore I go black

Unobserved

The black universe Unobserved not included Physics all its own

Golden Globes Not About Movies – Black Is the New Black

The show was mostly fun.  Seth is a funny, funny guy.  Advertisers put their money where the eyes are.  The awards look so much like over-sized microphones, I half-way expected some of the award winners to speak into them.  It must have been a safe zone, marked with empty-upside-down-in-the-ice-bucket Moet bottles, untouched deserts, and many,