Free Verse Poetry

Do Wind Chimes Bring Peace or Do They Bother Neighbors?

It’s Bewildering How Much This Gives Me Anxiety

Vintage handmade wind chimes. | Photo source: Lisa Carman, Pexels

I hung wind chimes on my porch

yesterday after finding them

buried in my car. My mother-in-law

gave the decoration to me

five or six years ago.

I didn’t have a place

to hang them back then.

It’s late at night.

I’m watching 3,877 episodes

of Bluey with my son,

he can’t sleep

because of his 16th tooth:

a pesky canine

that refuses to emerge.

I hear the chimes.

I worry my neighbors

hear them too. I worry

it is waking everyone up,

and they secretly hate me.

The wind intensifies,

the mix of cold and hot

in November is creating

winds normally thought of as

spring weather events.