Every home needs a
tail-wagging early warning
system to alert
occupants to impending
doom. We’ve been shielded
from low-flying crows, jogging
neighbors, sunflowers
bending in the wind, grazing
deer, meandering
trash cans, and UPS trucks
too numerous to
mention. With routine
care and attentive maintenance,
you can be protected too.
JDG
An eye infection?
What is my body telling
me? Is there something
amiss with how I’m seeing?
Could I have an “I”
infection? Or could it be
I just have an allergy?
JDG
Let’s celebrate when
we live in light, and honor
when we have the heart
to keep watch through what seems to
be a never-ending night.
JDG
.
A lone duck calls. No
answer comes. She swims and waits,
then wings her way home.
JDG
That squirrel came back for
another try and this time
it was do or die.
By turning his world upside
down and hanging most
precariously, he dined.
The pleasure must have
been all in the doing ’cause
he’s not returned for more chewing.
JDG
Again and again
he tried to get that dangling
sack of birdseed ’til
at last, his tail aswish, he
turned aside, seeming to
see all this effort was not
for him. It was for the birds.
JDG
Splash of salmon on
horizon’s edge – sun’s promise
on a cloud-filled day
JDG
Take one breath and then
another. No word need be
spoken, no action
taken ’til I get this act
of conscious breathing
down…or so I thought until
the realization
came and I understood I
may not speak or act again.
JDG
light hush of snow, bare
whisper of breeze – lullabye
for a tired soul
JDG
Early buds sometimes
get the warmth, but often they
are stopped cold in their
rush to be the first in Spring’s
long-awaited unfolding.
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