mandarins and
marigolds,
the setting sun,
and creamsicles
Things I love that are orange (a very small list)
Tag Archives: photography
Summer Porch Ledge
A porch ledge on a warm June night beckons with sparkling secrets
that only small, twinkling lights can keep. Charming all winged
creatures and telling fantastic midnight tales of adventure,
their hypnotic spell weaves in and out of green ivy dreams.
World’s Fair
The look of happiness, trapped and frozen in
that 1964 photograph looks hauntingly hopeful.
How I wish I could have seen it on your
lovely face in my lifetime.
A short story…
Hot Pink Rose
If I were a smallish pixie, I’d wear you as a hat.
Gatsby
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves
growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning
over again with the summer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
To Grow
days of rain
and days of sun—
we must have both
At the flea market
flats of flowers
musty books
small painter’s box*
fondue pots
herbs in baskets
old keys
pickle jars
homemade soaps
*I bought this little box for $1.00. It smells like linseed oil
(love that smell) and although most of the paints are stiff
and dry, I’ll keep them and add my own pencils and tools
to the collection. Treasure.
Parenting
I lifted you so that you would learn to lift yourself.
I listended to you so that you would learn to listen to your own voice.
I carried you so that you would know when to carry others.
I loved you so that you would rain love generously on
all that grows around you with a yearning thirst.
Fleeting Moment
Sweet, little babies…
the teen girls wrap you in blanketed warmth,
holding you like soft treasures in the sand.
My mother takes the light one and strokes its
head against her cheek. We speak softly,
the red light warming our hands.
This is a fleeting moment lasting under five minutes,
which I will remember long after the day ends
and the moment passes.
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