Puget Ridge Dog Kennel and Zen Center

to mockingbird again who is tonguing his embellishments and, in the distance,

the shy weed loving sparrow who has but one soft song

which he sings again and again and something somewhere inside

my own unmusical self begins humming: thanks for the beauty of the world. Thanks for my life.

Jenuarrie, a.k.a. Judith Warrie (Indigenous Australian, b. 1944):

Totemic Ancestors, 1988, linocut on paper. 42.5 × 42.5 cm.

Mythical Dancers, 1988, linocut on paper, 42 × 57.8 cm.

@sherrylephotography 5/25/22

Hoh rainforest in Olympic National Park has these signs up with poetry.

This haiku is by Kobayashi Issa

Right at my feet

and when did you get here

snail

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”