A cloudy day.  The city sits dark beneath the clouds. Solid with roads, bridges, buildings, runways yet moving too, the cars, the trains and taxiing planes beneath the grey clouds.   We rise.  The brilliant sun illuminates a dazzling cloudscape. Impenetrable white in the constant light. The faithful propeller spins, keeping us above…

    There it is, appearing round the corner They’re safe inside I’m sure.  And yet, for all I know one might be sick, absent for a worthy reason.  Or not. Around the corner in that clumsy way school busses have With their oddly placed mirrors and random bus drivers. Last year’s fat and jolly…

        In the dark night as I lay sleeping in the low mist of no-dreaming sleep a spirit, a little soul came. There, I can hear you snorting, hrumphing, “ridiculous why not just say a moth?” it wa a moth but so light, fluttering, seeking looking for a little water. There was…

      It’s not end of August yet. We had such a wet summer! The climate is ruined   No matter what you say, these leaves are turned and it is early fall.  The light is different, you need a blanket to sleep comfortably at night.  People are saying ” come in, the water’s…

    Even if I neglect my garden disgracefully it goes on with its own heedless life.  I am just a visitor here.  What do I have to do with the persistent teeming life that proceeds with or without my presence.  My part is to try to control, to clip , to weed, to fertilize…

Stepping into the lake at early morning No other bather and no boat, No bird but lake silence. Stepping into the water, the cool water. Stones and sand beneath my feet. Ripples, sun-ring ripples ring my legs, stepping into the lake. Expanding gentle ripples in early morning sun. Stepping into the cool water The sun…