The post to alleviate my guilt

I know I haven't posted in a while and I also know that no one but me really cares; but to assuage my own feelings I am posting a few poems I wrote this year.

Unexpected

"You'll have to do the box --
for at least eighteen months."
Finally, she thought, something
good has come of this;
but, she wasn't prepared
for his response:
"We could get rid of it."
A cold proposition --
she considered it
until she realized
he was referring
to the cat.

ltv

(I need some feedback on the poem above to make sure people know what's going on. I cut a final line that, to me, bonked the reader over the head.)


temporary amnesia

even now
with our perfect
hindsight
and happy new lives
related to each other
over coffee on my sofa
i wonder if maybe
some day
we could make it work

ltv



a winter waiting

for three months
the snow and cold
covered my heart
so much that only
a woeful longing
kept me warm
until the ice melted
the muddy path
to the barn
would not deter me
I anxiously whistled
straining my ears
dreading the silence
when finally
mew, mew, mew, mew
she remembered me

ltv