saguaro

I see you standing there

your silhouettes

like sentinels keeping watch

as people

on concrete highways

rush to and fro

over the hills

through the valley

into the night

"Whose idea was it that we should all work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, must-have gadgets....

....At times, I was so caught up in the tempo and pattern, the predictable tap, tap, tap of each day, that there was no time to notice the neighbors had moved out, the wind was sneaking in from the north, the sun was shifting on its axis...I wondered when I had become a person who noticed so little."

                                                                    -Dee Williams