AND SO IT GOES

Encaustic wax collage by S. Auberle

AND SO IT GOES

Yesterday the first hummingbird

buzzed by the window at dawn.

This morning there is new snow

and wind blasting down the mountain.

We lie here, tangled in warm

and I am thinking of chocolate rabbits

what I need to get for Easter dinner

that mammogram today and why

no poems are coming

but there was a bright moon rising

through the pines last night

and the Chianti tasted fine.

Will the wind ever stop

my brakes are squeaking

Bush is looking toward Iran

bike tires flat

need to meditate

have a garage sale

see the dentist--again

but there was that moon last night

haloing your face

in the most amazing way--so bright.

Sometimes I forget the light

how it enfolds this life

this heart, fragile as

that first hummingbird of spring.

- mimi