April 30, 2025

Watching Kingfisher

How lucky I would be

if I could stand upon

a branch and soak in

the blue and greens

of a spot of water

instead of placed

around a table

with people who don’t

take time to breathe or

understand each other?

                            (published in Plum; Spring 2025)

 

I believe we'd climb walls of stone             together
Conquer armies of anxieties forever.


Abandonment and addiction tightly         sewn                                                A lifetime's work to unfold and hone



We played a round of Exquisite Corpse at Jo's tonight to demonstrate to some people who'd never played it before.  Made me remember childhood games we played on the train to New York.  We played a version of it where we each had to write 2 sentences  after seeing only a couple words from the person before us.   Remember there were 5 or 6 of us kids together.  We also played a game where we would tell a story in a circle and we just had to keep going until someone was laughing too hard to go on.  And the third version was with art.  The first person drew the head and folded to the neck and the next person did the shoulders and so on.  EJ and I played this together a lot, too.  Actually,, any kid I hung out with has played it with me.  

Playing it tonight made me remember how much fun we had traveling together as kids.  We also sang all the time.  Barb played the ukulele and the rest of us sang verses and verses of really silly songs.   Those are all good memories.  We were our own community, our own team.  When we were young, we were each other's support group.  
Went to the community launching of the GCC literary journal tonight with the LAVA gang of writers.   Tonight so many of the readers were long time Greenfelders, lots of old friends.   I did not expect to read, but my name was called last. 


Actually, now that I think about it, it was a long day.  Hours ago I had therapy.  LOL   And I spent sometime with this Kingfisher at the beaver pond.   I could hear her mate, but I couldn't see him.   My favorite bird.  


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