Cast off accoutrements
Don dancing shoes
Second summer echoes
Through wine bars
Breweries
Trees on second wind
Greening the byways
Good cheer pouring
Positive meniscus
Sips. Smile. Sit back.
Breathe.
Too much goodness
Enough to leave the crust
The best is yet to come
love this...
Enough to last the year
Piles of memories
Stored in boxes
Outside
A pond growing
All sorts of things
Refreshed by
Overflowing gutters
Four pairs of eyes
Two adult-sized
Watching me
Right myself
After king hits
Like some cheesy
80's game show
On a slippery pole
With only a pool noodle
To defend us
Wednesday is taken up
Keeping back the jungle
Before it overtakes
With long lost friends
Recovered
Doing the same kind
Of anger management
With garden appliances
Keeping weeds at bay
While admiring
Their flowers
The bumblebee
Thanks us for our efforts
We find that this
Is pleasure enough
In this day
At our stage
Of life re-mended
Signs of life
Warmth and greeting
Between wounded hearts
Still beating
Tended edges show
Signs of life
Constant dripping
Feeding
Engine humming
People crawl out
From hiding
Expats leaving
Reminded by
More significant
Bloodlines receiving
With love
Light up a highway
Ships built for span
Under bridge
Not the other way
Standing watch
As passers by
Send a lifeline
To the other side
While loved ones
Deliberate
In the silence
Left behind
Come meet me by
The oyster bay pine
In search of lights
Swimming in the ocean
Brushing over skin
Like an eagle manta ray
Soaking in the sand
Across the bay
I saw a Forty Spotted
Pardalote today
She was perched
Undercover
Sheltered from
The rain
She was chirpy
Twittering to
A nesting mate
While I watched
The handsome exchange
From the other side
Of the window pane
Such excitement
One feels
No matter how long
The encounter
A rare bird is she
Whom we hardly ever
Lay eyes upon
But long to see
Indefinitely
A magic carpet ride
Source lost and found
Some foreign bazaar
Where incense, spice
And turkish delights
Feast your eyes
From afar
Friends call out
From way below
'Get down from there
You'll hurt yourself!'
Then tell them
'I don't care'
For a vision
Laid out in front
Shows me
As far as only
Mine eye
Can see
It's too easy to imagine
If all the stars fell
Out of the sky
Dark nights
Would be warmed by
Street lights
Into the starlit darkness
She treads carefully
By the fireside
Flame flickers
In her eyes shining
Until dreams take over
Healing sore bones
Until birdsong breaks
Through her thoughts
Each morning
We won't hide ourselves
From the light
Love's anthem plays
All through the night
Slip back into this
Young person
No longer little ones
Walking sleeping
Puppies
Big ones
Greetings by
The cadence of feet
Percussive
Keeping us all moving
To the same beat
Just to be
Long moments
With each of us
Keeping us connected
Look upon lights
Reflecting in darkness
Near or far
Distance oblivious
Those who stare
Thinking of loved ones
Long away, lost or near
Floating stars
Bring us together
Words crossing over
Tapping on shoulder
No less wondrous
Than the real thing
Eyes our lens
To capture it
Store away for decades
No dust to spoil
Image of beauty
Free to circumnavigate
Our world filled
Existence
To revelate
Eons of thinkers
Dreamers, ideas
Come to fruition
Suspended in space
Count the stars of heaven 