The poison spreads
Wrist, forearm, bicep
Thigh? Maybe. Hope not
The chocolate warehouse burned down
Perhaps I will go to the candy factory
There's a butcher in the shoppe
1.5 hours to circumnavigate the lake
I like my kayak and call her Caddy
We putter around. A heron starts. Cormorants fan their wings on a slowly sinking log. White egrets circle the shallows. Yellow lilies about to burst. Turtles sunning. I scoop a drowning bug on my paddle and tip them onto the front of my boat. They ride the helm, wings drying, triumphant. They take off when they're ready--15 magnificent feet of flight before plummeting back to the water. I turn the boat around, scoop the drowning bug onto my paddle, tip them once again onto the red plastic. I aim for the bushes overgrowing the bank. They leap when we're close, scrambling onto a branch
Safety is always tenuous
Is it driving you mad?
It's driving me
Perhaps I'm foolish. I didn't make it up
I edit the novel
I take Hanna for a run in the woods, through meadows sensual with goldenrod
Someone has placed bags of brown leaves and acorns at the foot of the driveway
I'm brave enough
I just don't see things that way
Not interested in battling
Still have fight in me
I paint my nails with vegan colors: left hand gold, right hand lavender-blue. left toes lavender-blue, right toes gold
The hyacinths won't last the winter
Unburdened of shame
At 8 o'clock I'll dance again
Are you?
If I could spend all fall in the fecund woods I'd do it
