Monday, November 27, 2017

More life-gifting than Santa Claus




In the Mission District of San Francisco -- poinsettia.  Stop walking and listen to the story.  The man who is painting a small pink canvas in his driveway tells me the poinsettia was formerly the root above and migrated to a trunk next to to the original.  He's lived there for 29 years and it flowers every year about this time.  Walking is a banquet for the eyes and posies for the page.   Keep walking.  Keep looking down.  Keep looking up.  Keep a blank page & pen nearby.  

1 comment:

  1. Cosmic Rays

    this fall as all others::
    a tangy bite of something
    and something not
    there--
    leaves?

    details to decipher
    and strings of ancestors wound around
    the nail can upended

    no more pontiacs
    still the wild cat howls

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