Medicine

sometimes hugs soothe like

balm, medicine for tummy

aches, bugs, viruses!

Passing

The Elders: Jeanne @ 75 Bugs @ 18

Age spots dance: champagne

bubbles on the skin of life

“veteran lovers”

Blossoms

There’s a blossom on my bottom
where a caterpillar kissed me;
and another on my shoulder
from a spider-bite blushed pink-y.

These bugs, they think I’m candy,
Look for nectar in my family;
Leave gingham prints upon my skin
And phantoms in my belly!

Jeanne Poland

Spring Sprang

Yesterday Spring sprang!
On the way home from Poetry Reading at the library, in the car, we spied:
2 wild turkeys crossing the road
1 jack rabbit
3 deer
1 woodpecker
3 waving children
several goldfinch
1 carpenter bee
several beetles
Mediterranean wasps
a million dandelions
and many squashed bugs across the windshield of the newly waxed car.

At night, I went right to sleep. All were exactly where they ought to be!