2006/bluebird

Blue bird on the palm trunk
the morning after a violent rain,
geranium blooms pounded and bent.
The cat tracks in and out,
paw prints everywhere he’s been.
I’m aggravated -in the process
of choosing a new couch –
I see where this is going.
It’s not a picture-perfect life
I’m after, just one that delights.
One with less struggle to maintain,
that allows for actual life
to be lived in it.
An honest house for an honest life,
the little that’s left of it.

3/11/06