Of Late I’ve Been Thinking About Retirement – by KB Ballentine

Waking late (or early), as I wish

Eating breakfast with a book,

enjoying lunch with my favorite show

Morning appointments before doctors cancel for the day

Grocery shopping before the work crowd gets off, 

making it home without hitting rush hour traffic

Crafting, writing, swimming, dancing any hour I want as long as I want

Not planning my evening around what time I have to get up

As many amber bottles left on the counter as I can remember

Going to the bathroom on my own damn schedule

KB Ballentine’s sixth collection, The Light Tears Loose,
appeared this summer with Blue Light Press. Published in Crab Orchard
Review and Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, among others, her work also
appears in anthologies including In Plein Air (2017) and Carrying the
Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (2017). Learn more at
www.kbballentine.com.