
stagnant this morning
rising to begin the day
the heat of summer

stagnant this morning
rising to begin the day
the heat of summer

don’t let the critics
especially from within
silence your life song

meet me where you smell
fragrance of desert willow
ere all the blooms fall

jutting into lake
land, water, wind, sky joining
a very thin place


coffee in silence
five men on the patio
a squirrel joins them
PS: The phone-camera chose an inopportune time to run out of memory as the squirrel came right up to my chair and moseyed among us. Yes, the proverbial big fish that got away!