My body’s needed

exercise and I’ve tried

to give it that, but

today after a sleepless

night of belly pain,

I’m attentive to its current

need for medicine and rest. 

                                                                        JDG

On the way to take

my granddaughter to college

with four other teens

and all her stuff, I give thanks

for a two hour

drive with all their devices,

knowing the drive back,

though touched with melancholy,

will be a short and quiet one.

                                                                                      JDG

The lure of bird food

was too much for that squirrel.

He leapt for it and

missed. Again and again he

tried, then suddenly

gave his tail a haughty swish

 as if to say,”I

didn’t want it anyway.”

He might have seen this

behavior before in those

with two legs instead of four. 

                                                                              JDG