“I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.” ~ Vincent van Gogh
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Cool Autumn Morning

cool autumn morning
rain clouds edged
with remnants of dawn

the cats go out early
liking this lapse in the heat

Monday, March 5, 2012

Leaf

(Written as a WordsFlow exercise 11 Nov. 2011 and just rediscovered.)

I found a brown leaf, curled and twisted, with one red spot on the front near the stem, and a little hole the other end, like a pinprick. Did an insect start to eat it and give up? Did it get damaged falling from the tree? What tree? The wind must have blown it quite a way. It has yellow spots too, very small, very faint, and the veins are strongly marked in darker brown. The underside is paler, more golden brown. The stem is only half as long as the leaf. It’s a graceful, pretty thing, scalloped, fluted, with a point at the tip. It’s ephemeral, isn’t it? If I take it home to keep forever, it will dry and fade and crumble and I’ll end up throwing it away. I’ll throw it away now, back to the air and the earth.