ELLA'S BLUES

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ELLA'S BLUES

outside

35 below zero

windchill

inside

me

hummin' along

to Ella

I'm blanket-wrapped

eating cherries

from Chile

seems all

I can think

to do today

choosing

the roundest

reddest

cherry

biting into

sweet flesh

tryin' to remember

the dream

of summer

and was there

ever

a time

when livin' was easy?

~ mimi

MOON AND RED TREES

Encaustic print by S. Auberle

How lucky

to live

in a place

where people stop

their cars

to look

at the moon...

LOVE, JUST LOVE

Print by S. Auberle

Tucson, Arizona--

Christina, age nine,

born on 9/11,

who loved ballet and baseball,

gunned down

by a madman...

fear shivers through me

that the world has come to this.

Fear implores me

to do something, so never

does it happen again.

Fear reminds me (as if

I could forget)

of my grandchildren,

twin boys born that year

just three weeks after.

They love baseball,

run like the wind,

create mischief

wherever they go.

When they ask me

for answers, I say love,

just love...

and put Spiderman bandaids

on skinned knees,

dry their tears,

and hold them tightly,

as long as they allow.

~ Sharon Auberle

WINTER HAIKU

Photo painting by S. Auberle

white sky paints the dawn

muted crows wing overhead

the snow whispers down

~ mimi

first appeared in "Crow Ink"