poem spring '24

 

 

poem spring ‘24

on the kitchen counter

a blue plastic water bottle

nudged by a tangerine

difficult to fight against it all

what with a dan de lion

leafing green blossoming yellow

downstairs in a crack in the concrete

 

Another way?

 

Another way in might be this dream?

 

A group of friends wanted to kill a moth.

What was the point? No matter.

They asked me to kill it.

I shied away from the furry

body, the fluttering wings

touching my face. No,

I awoke.

Ivy in winter

The photo goes back a ways, to 2019.... Beautiful colors, no?

 

 

 

 

Woodland walks

 A warm summer day a few years back the Sant Nicolau River in Auguëstortes National Park - ready to cool off?

Cumulus

 

Cumulus

 

Or stratocumulus I can’t …

The way they seem just

To hang there unmoving

 

White and gray in a bright blue sky

 

Then the distant mountains bluish

The fields a shift of green then

Autumnal yellows toned oranges

Move your gaze back up

Life's renewals

 From a photo taken some years ago in Viladrau

 

Buncrana revisited

 This photo is from a morning trip we took to Buncrana, Ireland on August 9 2019. Some of the landscape we saw on our walk along the river path. Buncrana is in Donegal, on the Inishowen peninsula. The high temperatures in and around Barcelona today make me yearn not only for the the views but also, obviously, for cooler weather. 

The water is Lough Swilly, the town 23 kilometers northwest of Derry, 43 kilometers north of Letterkenny. Hopefully we'll get back there again soon. And with temperaztures down worldwide.