Did you really think you could assert order on this?
Standing apart
What separates us is what I have not yet learned how to say.
I will be as I am
No apology. No explanation. No shame. All exuberance.
Cascading change
The lick and trill of small disturbances.
Hah!
Don't even try to make anything of it. It is what it is.
No fix
It's hard to wait, but this is what is asked of me now. No pushing.
Get on along
Sometimes what you are told to do is just what you suspected you ought to. Resistance is just noise, like laughter or clapping. So go!
Lady bugs climb the flowering
maple, everywhere but never so united as ants. The feathery green is troubled by flicks of almost invisible wings. Unnamable pollinators. A feasting of small tongues.
The azalea gives
no apology for such pink.
not every tender new sprout
will flourish and thrive
Dice
A pair of dice. A pair of us. The juxtapositions. The dice guide us. Hers like the nips of a sheepdog, annoying but trustworthy. Mine ask more of me than simple course corrections
