Restlessness

Covid fatigue set in long ago, and like typical ennui it waxes and wanes.

Restlessness

Almost an Eden until boredom

bores in. Pine-scented air and white-

tailed deer, lake and lily pads outside

                                              my door.

Covid-19 on the back burner but

so are the neighbors. Glimpsed at

and waved to through stands of trees.

A routine changed from city tennis

and Happy Hour with friends

to decoding portents of winter

from wooly bear caterpillars.

The overused kayak beckons

with all the zest expressed

by a maitre d' signaling a table

                                          for one.

The hours drag by desultory

as the droopy fly on the screen.

Novels with bookmarks stuck

at the front lie scattered on tables.

Take Away menus lack pizzazz,

    find themselves dumped back

        in the drawer, ignored.

Only the robins scavenging

the lawn seem absorbed by a task,

but that, too, won't last.

Marilyn Aschoff Mellor