set upon by the cat

 I am set upon by the cat once again

nothing left to do but smile pet her

and sting random ones and zeros together

at least partially caffeinated

fully vaccinated

I sit and try not to decide

 


 something makes you glad to take every breath.


The E Ticket of my generation 

turns out to be a reservation 

for a two dose vaccine.


The flowers slowly recede 

from the early garden

like the out going tide

Their early Spring energy spent

their flowers turning to seed

to sleep underground

until next year the next tide


Life on earth dictated by

the sun and moon

six inches of top soil

and rain

who knew?


There is a whole school of nature writing

prose, poetry, fiction, biography

with salmon in it's teeth

Tales of the Great North Wet 


Gary Snyder, not unlike Prometheus

came down to City Lights 

not to steal the fire

he had his own 

but to share it

pass the bottle around the bonfire

and bask in the glow

of the old stories

the new stories

and to make 

new new stories


We are all the better for sharing

If you haven't read any of Snyder

Try Turtle Island or start at the beginning

with his Reed College work


Reed

a great school

a mildly disappointing

avocado


Making and drinking ten thousand cups of tea
has taught me one thing
tea cools

the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics
in a tea cup
let's leave absolute zero
for another day

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