#AwakeAugust, Friday, August 26, 2016

city living - window to window

overhearing a neighbor’s loss

this hot summer day

#AwakeAugust, Wednesday, August 24, 2016

only after hearing the cicada shrill
do I realize the silence
that came before

#AwakeAugust, Friday, August 19. 2016

late night barefoot stroll
I can still feel the prickle
where the cicada crawled over my foot

#AwakeAugust, Thursday, August 18, 2016

searching from window to window
to see the August moon
catching only glimpses through the trees

#AwakeAugust, Saturday, August 13, 2016

after the day-long heat wave
the chatter of the cicada

#AwakeAugust, Friday, August 12, 2016

sometimes
the little things
take your breath away

#AwakeAugust, Thursday August 11, 2016

pulling weeds in the scorching sun
for just a moment
I smell the shore

#AwakeAugust, Wednesday, August 10, 2016

carefully, I move the spider
to the open window
from the comfort of my home

#AwakeAugust, Tuesday, August 9, 2016

drifting off to sleep
I feel the footsteps on my blanket
of a cat long gone

#AwakeAugust, Monday August 8, 2016

the park is full of people
heads bowed, searching...
for Pokemon

#AwakeAugust, Sunday, August 7, 2016

among the broken glass
of a tossed out bottle
a cicada shell

#AwakeAugust, Saturday, August 6, 2016

ferrying the bee on my windshield
from town
to town
to town

#AwakeAugust, Friday, August 5, 2016

each day
watching the red creep up
the ripening tomato

#AwakeAugust, Thursday August 4, 2016

trimming the blue leaves
from the "tinted" daisies
as if cutting wasn't enough

#AwakeAugust, Wednesday, August 3, 2016

discovering the hole in the garden --

the skunk's faint odor remains

#AwakeAugust, Tuesday, August 2, 2016

hearing the cardinal
before I see her

#AwakeAugust, Monday, August 1, 2016

I pick the last of the blueberries
the robin missed