
January 1, 2020
On first day of year
Fading light silhouettes trees
New is old is new
1/2/20
At home for five days
Stooping for paper, bird song
Pierces isolation
1/3/20
Accelerating
4 am worries torment
Infection can spread
1/4/20
Last minute concert
Circumstances conspired
Past skips into now.
1/5/20
Hitting the water
Worries start to take over
Instead send prayers
1/6/20
Purple thunder sounds
Come from his didgeridoo
Ah, he breathes easy.
1/7 Dream
Bright gossamer skirt
flares end of agave didge.
Breath visible.
1/8
Testosterone wars
Where have all the flowers gone?
Finger earth for seeds.
1/9
Tranquil pool today
Floated, sending out prayers
A root in water.
1/10
Create new habits.
Miracle if humans can.
King tides though, come true.
1/11
Wet morning sidewalks
Red tree leaves sparkle in sun
Note: this, too, will change
1/12
How does word get out?
Endless workshops to help me
Still, I must do work.
1/13
AD makes me slow
I swallow urge to hurry
Digestion varies.
1/14
Lost temper today
No point. He cannot recall
Enough to adjust.
1/15
Mundane fills my mind
Care provider cancels shift
Hup, hup get to work
1/16
Wind howls discontent
What are we humans doing?
I sit and listen.
1/17
Deep dive with whale guide
Expansion through connection
My dimensions grow.
1/18
Diverse women march
In Oaktown spirits rise
Buoys my painful hip.
1/19
Grandson making dough
Offers to cover more hours
Maybe I can breathe?
1/20
MLK warns of
Power without compassion
In dark can see stars.
1/21
Yucca wants to spread!
Multiplies invisibly
Voracious roots suck.
1/22
Wet everywhere
Where does so much pee come from?
Surprise! More laundry.
1/23
Strange day, not as planned
AD with low blood pressure
Watchful attention.
1/24
Clinging to what was
Resisting possible change
No space for surprise.
1/ 25
Young black man hustling
Books door-to-door, smiling bright
Unconscious anger.
1/26
Light breeze dries clothes
Time for planting and pruning
Birds getting busy.
1/ 27
Toilet is running
Opens the door to trouble
All pipes shot, old bones.
1/28
Books used to be gold
Precious, heavy, sparkling
I sink to ditch them.
1/ 29
Life flows by blurry.
Where has my focus, drive gone?
Years lost forever.
1/30
Costco overwhelms.
Strangers in a big stark store
Someone grows mushrooms.
1/31
Artichoke dug out
Gravel pit will take drainage
Feed to aquafer.
2/2
Wind gusts around me
Drying the laundry but good
My mind a milkshake.
2/3
Shake mind: homeless friends,
High crime without punishment,
Mortal body quirks.
2/4
People come and go
Switch for outside got turned off
My house not my own.
2/5
My stomach turns, sour
Will not survive election
Can Country turn big?
2/6
Thoughts turn to money
In 3-5 a.m. range
Fear lays waste to sleep.
2/7
Way to keep things out
Blowing in insulation
This psyche needs that.
2/8
My mood is lifting
Something about sunshine, warmth
Weeds never give up.
2/9
Viviane lies curled
Against cruel winds of change
Hibernates and rests.
2/10
Signs, we think, lead us
through Tilden to estate sale
Coyote finds us.
2/11
Plasticity’s good
Plastic’s immortality
Unforeseen evil.
