AT SALLIE'S PLACE

Altered photo by S. Auberle

AT SALLIE'S PLACE

there's a high wind

blowing today

on it

small spiders

sailing by

firmly attached

to their

silken threads.

I wonder

if they feel

glee?

We watch

the wind god

lofting them

to unknown ports

their many

busy legs

resting

along the way.

~ mimi

THE INLAND SEA

Photo by S. Auberle

HOLDING ON

this cold, August morning,

I lie on warm sandstone

beside the Gratiot River.

Tan and clear, its calm merges

with Superior's boiling fury.

The lake is thundering in,

wind's mouth roaring

words I can't decipher.

At my feet--scarab jewels

tiny, gold creatures

clinging to rock,

their miniature hearts

beating like mine.

In winds steady at 35 knots,

we are holding firm,

the beetles and I,

on the edge of infinity.

~ mimi

SQUIRRELY

Photo by S. Auberle

Though this is not the same squirrel, I'm sure they're distantly related...

BREATHE

when the last tourist

has left the county

when the last company

has gone home

the last undecided shopper

clogged the aisles

of the Pig

it will just be me

and that psycho squirrel

zinging acorns

down upon my head

as I walk beneath

his mighty oak...

breathe...

and duck

~ mimi

DISCOVERY

Photo by S. Auberle

"The real voyage of discovery

consists not of seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes."

~ Marcel Proust

Have you ever seen a pink Queen Anne's lace? Neither had I, till yesterday. But there it was, right along the roadside, among all it's white neighbors. Apparently it happens--a stage in the growth process of some plants, but it's rare. Now I keep looking at fields of the white, lacy blossoms and see not another blushing queen. But I'll keep looking...

THE PRESENT FEAST

Photo by S. Auberle

"The reality of now--the unreality of all the rest."

~ Thomas Merton

you

sitting there

in a red shirt

silver hairs

on your golden arm

the cardinal

singing

his late summer song

outside heat

pressing down

on our two stalks

of corn

tasselling

my coffee

pale with cream

book words paper pen

this moment

i celebrate

~ mimi