Banana trees are contrary, popping up willy-nilly wherever they wish. I’m also contrary, snipping them back to the ground with my sharp trusty clippers. This is my garden. I will decide who goes where. Continue reading Morning Meditation 5.19.14: Bananas
The wail of ship’s horns cleave the morning air evoking ghosts of freckle-faced boys bobbing on rafts while their mamma’s float magnolia blossoms in bowls of cerulean blue. Visions of another time, yet not. Continue reading One May Morning
The morning is heavy. It waits with stilled breath for shoving or parting, for breaking out or lying in. A lone woodpecker hammers diligently. Continue reading Morning Meditation 5.9.14 – Nebulous
The morning air is moist and expectant and smells like frothy white waves pushing sand between bare toes. when I close my eyes I feel the briny breeze, the familiar cries of gulls floating between here and there. Continue reading Morning Meditation 5.7.14 – The Gulf
A flash of brown and red scrambles up a spire of green, holds on tight at the top like a desperate man on the ledge of a burning building. Squirrels in the bamboo. Continue reading Morning Meditation 5.6.14 – Squirrels
Ferns glow in the morning sun like constellations in the night sky. Rustling palm fronds reveal O.J. the cat peering down from his tropical perch, on the hunt for careless birds seeking breakfast. Continue reading Morning Meditation 5.5.14 – Constellations
From the window of a moving train you can see only the big picture. Clouds and a wall of green move past like a dream that vanishes when you wake. To focus on one tree or one house or cloud makes your eyes cross with a feeling of hurtling into space from the broken safety harness of a runaway roller coaster, causing the hours old coffee in your stomach to rise thickly into your throat. Continue reading The Big Picture
Ancient black arms and newborn green fingers stretch upward to infinite azure Thousands of shimmering cymbals clamor in the breeze Raise your eyes Absorb the vitality Continue reading April Oaks
