FROM La Fovea online at http://www.lafovea.org/La_Fovea/anna_leahy.html

In the Meantime

is the mean
time, that malicious wait-and-see,
in-between time,
until we set our clocks
back to save the daylight.

FROM Constituents of Matter:

A Rational Choice Theory

Let's barter for love. Isn't a bargain better
than something we'd get for free?

Naturally, we select our reasoned preference
at any given moment. Later, we debate,

become churlish even. Can't the sensible
be sensual?

You give me your family history,
and I'll give you mine.

I offer efficiecy, but it come
with laundry day and multitasking.

You offer the one thing at a time, the reconciling
of a checkbook, the toothbrush to the grout,

but this comes with stacking
of books, bills, everything in view.

I am the out of sight but calendar stricken.
You wear the watch in this house. I keep time.

Exchange theories aren't good with details:
don't count your chickens,

this little piggie went to market, this little piggie had none.
We must think better than yesterday's wants

that we misguessed with good intentions.
Evolution's little luster favors us.

Let's barter every day: why notarize a trade-off,
why not question an even deal,

why not risk a less pecuniary life, bank something?
Love's expensive. Let's haggle.