Me self is always crawling
out the window
Tag Archives: nature
Nosey
He sniffs; I sniff. Just enjoying our full corporeality. Only he is so much better at it than I am. While I’m like, “ah… the smell of fresh grass…” he’s like “nice male puppy who just got neutered; dominant middle-aged female; old cranky male whose kidneys are giving out (wait, that’s me!); rabbit!”
On Solar Power
Everything lives by the light. It sounds like a religious statement. Maybe it is mine. My mother sometimes jokes that she is part plant because her personal rhythms are so affected by light cycles. It’s a truth we deny to our peril.
Matins
When I come to wake
There is a bird there
Already
A Walk in the Park
I awoke today to find
There are birds.
The Breakers
Standing on the breakers
in the spray
it can seem
Like the rock is winning
The Mouse and the Ladybug
Lately I’ve been trekking to Colorado to my in-laws’ to help prepare their old house for sale. In the absence of humans, other denizens have taken up residence. The first I noticed were the mice. I didn’t notice mice, that is, but I noticed mouse droppings. Lots of them. Everywhere. My mind raced to rabiesContinue reading “The Mouse and the Ladybug”
Life Will Out
Life is the dandelion in the sidewalk crack that shrivels under a spray of Round-Up and then shoots up a new stalk next day, the lichen on the headstone, the bacterial bloom in the holding tank. It is tiny and mighty and everywhere. The sublime is underfoot.
Life in the Multiverse 