oiseaux

blue jay in the aster pot
robins (97+98) bobbing in the yard
tiny ochre finch on a mountain ash branch
laden with burnished berries
hardly any last year and now abundant
beaks feathers
cycles

Incrementals

on the corner of 46th street and 107th avenue
is a street sign indicating that you have arrived
at the corner of 46th street and 107th avenue
it is about 12 feet high (i reckon) and made up of rebar:
steel with holes at intervals along the length

and in waiting for the bus today
(which stops just north of 46/107)
i noticed tall grass growing alon the sign along the rebar
but also something else

glimpsing into the hole in the steel a sliver of green
a blade of grass growing within
not all twelve feet but about my height
less than half of that...a little over 5...63 inches

and soon after the bus arrived
i boarded the 94 and wondered what else there would be on my route to discover
other things i hadn't seen before

navigating

a 2mm bug is making its way
across the computer screen
sooner or later
we're all just headed for home

red red robin

#95
perched high on a wire
blue blue electric blue
waves and spider skeins
in the sun
the world's on fire
but it's a lovely sunny day

go figure

Sea holly

eryngium
member of the carrot family
similar seeds
you wouldn't know it to see it at first
but maybe on closer inspection
frilly spiky foliage
very Dr Suess

a cluster booming
the colour of JJ's spheres
violet candies
my high school grad dress

nearly twenty years and a few transplants
would love to snip a sprig or two but daunted by hovering wasps
loving the sea holly
they love it too
one big old blooming nest of love

Lovely

lovely in the way that the sun comes streaming through late afternoon
after a grey day with lights on

lovely in the way that after slicing and stuffing tomatoes
fingertips smell pleasantly of garlic

lovely in the way that knowing returning a book to the library means
that someone somewhere soon will also soon enjoy it

lovely in the way a vocal and clambering kitty means
that still at sixteen he's still a force to be reckoned with

lovely in the way that realizing that somethings past are best left in the past
not so much buried as put to rest...at peace

lovely in the way that small sums make up summer
and every so often it is good to remember to tally

Dimanche

heirloom tomato sauce
musing on voyaging, ill gotten gains...narwhals
new dry kibbles for kitten
bistro dinner
short play readings
calliope tune + DMS accompaniment
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