After the rain,
just before the break of day,
there’s a quickening
among the trees.
Dawn is approaching.
They will enter the light refreshed.
JDG
Strategic Planning
You could almost see
the wheels of their minds turning
as Thanksgiving neared
and they searched for a way
to politely vote no
regarding Gaba’s green bean casserole.
JDG
Time Will Tell
Gold lined clouds at start
of day. Is it an omen
or a golden tease?
JDG
License Plate Commentary
WHOOPTDO, it said.
Was this snark just a comment
on the general state
of things or a bored response
to this heated election?
JDG
A Question Of Largesse
In a very small
house, what can each do to make
room for everyone?
JDG
First Stirrings
When the impulse is there, but not the words,
why not create
a holding
place for
each
small
shiver
of longing
to stretch and shake
until it finally takes shape and speaks?
JDG
Bureaucratic Bliss
Reattestation –
a process that attests to
the mindless triumph
of computerized glitches
over simple common sense.
JDG
As I Go About My Day
The question I want
to keep before me as I
go about my day –
Is what I’m thinking, saying,
or doing adding
to my own suffering or
the suffering of others?
JDG
Some Trees
This year it seems some
trees have slipped past red and gold
and have sought refuge
in a familiar green or
grounded themselves in bland brown.
JDG
That Mind Of Mine
That mind of mine
can go on and on
as though I failed
to take note
the first time it spoke.
My body tightens
in response, but then
my heart smiles
on them both
and before long
the mind pauses
in its monologue
and a three-way
conversation begins.
JDG
