This Moment inspired by Amanda Blake Soule at soulemama.com
Remembering This Moment: Desert Profiles
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Fog
The fog lifted–
like a web across my sleeping eyes
it crawled away in slow motion
leaving a snail’s trail of wispy melancholia.
Inspired by…
the color of my coffee
pink stitches
this book: Amazing Rare Things edited by David Attenborough
longer days of sunlight
laughing with my kids
morning walks at daybreak
lost feathers
late winter sunsets
patches of ice floating on the river
sprinkles on strawberry ice cream
Comparisons
What is to distinguish us from the industrial ants who build
tunnels and drag their food below the surface for safekeeping?
Why do we think ourselves superior to the clever digger wasp
who makes his home deep into the earth?
I think these obvious thoughts as I approach the subway.
Forgive
You turned away–
I try to forgive you a little bit each day.
The Tracks
The sun sets on the tracks turning them into straight
lines of salmon steel reflecting the day’s end.
We pause at that inverted “v” where perspective
tricks us into thinking we’ve come such a very long way.
Happy Candy
1. Chocolate
2. Gummy Bears
3. Cracker Jacks
4. Candy Canes
5. Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum
Broken
We are all broken, to one extent or another
and there is always beauty to be found in the broken.
Day Dreaming
Walking along frozen fields of white
crystals cracking in the cold morning wind,
I dream of a warm sun and red tulips.
The Light
A tropical plant living lushly with care and
attention, gravitates toward the light of the
window and is contained by a cold, hard pane
of cloudy, obscure glass.
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