#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

And on the 150th day the plumber said, "Let there be water," and there was water. And the plumber saw the water was good. And the plumber said "Let the water run from the bathroom sink." And it was so. And the plumber separated the check from our checkbook. And on the 150th day, the bathroom was finished. 
Hallelujah!

mindful writing, small stones-Jan 30, 2014

winter chill --
listening to a Tui's summer song
over Skype

mindful writing, small stones-Jan 29, 2014

unsure of my Neostylis orchid's fragrance

until I saw my cat sniff a blossom

and shake his head in disgust