Garden News, Aug 2011

I can hear the traffic
from my back door:

click-clicks from hummingbirds in the leaves,
wasps, bumblers, jellowjackets and honeybees

10,000 gnats
and a dozen dragonflies
- dinosaurs of the skies

breezes

currents

I can hear the traffic
from my back door,

and the traffic count
is high today.

Clutter

The re-arranging piles
are now
piles of constants,
in rows.
Satisfying, somehow -
this small order
from chaos.

Sincerity

I grew up
not knowing sarcasm
Only experiencing it
occasionally
as barbs of veiled
intentions

My father was strict
on this notion -
Anything but Sincerity
is a Colossal
Waste of Time

It's deeply ingrained
and I Sincerely
thank him
for the lesson