Heading to the bathroom at 2 AM
Black circle in the middle of my vision
A hex of old age
My creaky old body is full of witches
Doubling, doubling, toiling and troubling
Havoc in the extremities
The rains have subsided
But I cannot walk out the door
Without being old
The black circle moves aside
I stare into the mirror
The witches keep brewing
Buff Whitman-Bradley’s latest book is And What Will We Sing? (Kelsay Books). He has another book coming in the fall, A Quiet Little Tavern Somewhere Near the Pleiades, from Finishing Line Press. He podcasts at thirdactpoems.podbean.com and lives in northern California with his wife, Cynthia.