Three Days Away

The vines have extended

new tendrils questing to spread.

I go and loop them back

through the old pathways

of curlicues covering the fence.

The rainclouds – active (I’m told)

in my absence – turn sluggish,

moving away very slowly.

There seem to be many more
flies and mosquitoes. The cat
retreats back indoors.

Garden Moments

Spring breeze –

a dead leaf dangles

from a web

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mosquito –

I reach, close my hand
on empty

Spring Things

black-and-white

visiting butterfly

quickly gone

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fine morning

tiny birds flutter

in new leaves

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yawning early –

last night late with sexy

new novel