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🌸Baby it’s true, I'm a sucker for you🌸 -Sucker; the Jonas Brothers

Thanksgiving brings an olive branch to seasons of mindless shopping to fill a hollow day with thoughtless gifts bought for unknown reasons,replacing words we’ve never learned to say. Before Santa Claus starts the yearly swindle,my past becomes a present in my mind;as my remaining years begin to dwindle,I’m grateful for the days I’ve left behind. This was meant to connect the first two octaves…

My childhood neighbors were blue-haired ladiesin black high-topped shoes with 2-inch heelsbalancing on stepping stones, gardeningin house-dresses, explaining the importanceof ants on peonies to make the buds open.Behind the lace curtains, their dark furniturewas covered with knick-knacks, doilies andblack-and-white photos in silver frames.In the wrong climate for grandma’shydrangeas, we made do…

Orange you glad the winter’s gone,the birds are trilling in the dawnand peepers join in evening songwhen spring bursts forth and brings rebirth? The poison ivy only sleeps;a green-scummed puddle slowly steepsmosquito larvae in the deepswhen spring bursts forth and brings rebirth, Black widows drowsing in the lawnwhile ticks are hiding on a fawnwith sun’s warm glow to spur them onwhen spring…

Nostalgia by the numbers

37.7104° N, 76.3797° W elevation 1,495’Temp. 50°, 38% humidity A jay streaked from a pinethis morning, like a blue ribbonto festoon a skeletal tree,here in the land of the craband peeper frog, the lightningand the lighthouse, bone-chilling winds whiskingour breaths from our mouthson our morning walk. 33.4255° N, 111.9400° W elevation 89’Temp. 62°, 24% humidity Beyond the bougainvilleaat our…

Idyll of almost March

Under the dead leavestiny flowers wait for springand so do we all Out of idleness induced by coldI venture, blinking like a bear,bundled, booted, in a rollingmoon walk over the mud,armed with a rake, searchingfor signs of March. A sprig of mintin a litter of saffron-tinted leaves,frog eggs like sea foam sleepingin puddles cloaked in algal slime,any green on a gray-trunked treestanding like a…