if only

wouldn't we like to
solve
everything

make a small bird
always
safe

let a nothing girl
know
she is not nothing

turn back
the rushing
waters

we too, weep,
looking out on our own
jerusalems


Thinking today of all the people in and around Houston. "If only...."

"As He approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it."  ~Luke 19:41

interrupting the routine

i left the laundry behind 

and the pickleball

games

traded them 

for dew on leaves

dragonfly wings

and the garden’s other 

offerings

i drank eagerly

of her cup

juice of zinnias

dripping down 

my chin  

"Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue."

                                          ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

"Oh, taste and see...."  ~Psalm 34:8