I placed two octagonal centavos in the vendedor callejero’s weathered brown hand. He opened the door of the two-tiered cage underneath an intricately carved wooden castle to release the light yellow canary. It hopped onto the embroidered Mayan cloth toward a box overfull with colored slips of paper folded and numbered packed like tea bags […]
Archive for the ‘Natural World’ Category
The Fortune Teller
Posted in Birds, Existential, Travel, Writing on January 26, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Birdsong
Posted in Birds, Emotions/Inner World, New Year's on January 1, 2018 | 1 Comment »
Birdsong competes with the fluorescents’ buzz the cold concrete risers of the underground parking lot emitting tweets and chirps the call and response of barn swallows safe from predators and the Pacific arctic air chilling all the inhabitants of this usually moderate climate bipeds scurrying despite featherlite down plumage.
Twin Falls
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Mortality, Photos, Waterfall on September 24, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
We were an unlikely quartet alongside the Snoqualmie River’s South Fork the tall and lumbering Taiwanese student towering over the thin and lanky American teen the energetic dog pulling the 50-something suitor up the trail and me the other 50-something tracking literary allusions stopping for expansive breaths murmuring metta blessings closing my eyes to receive […]
Corner to Corner
Posted in Dreams, Kindness, Rain on April 27, 2017 | 1 Comment »
He stood still and stoic the only movement a steady tap-tap-tap of the cane’s white marshmallow ball making constant contact with the sidewalk curb.
Unwitting Witness
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, Ducks, Mortality, Poetry on March 19, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll say I’m anthropomorphizing reading too much into things projecting making something out of nothing making it about me.