Things I've Seen (this summer)

fountain on campus of VCFA (Diana F+)

1. The moon-round head of an owl, white next to her ruffled-down, brown body in the blue twilight sky of Nantucket.
2. A kitchen countertop crowded with bowls of fresh-picked tomatoes and glasses of herbs with their stems in water.
3. A spider clinging to the living room ceiling, its eight legs doubled by their spindly shadows.
4. The deep brown of my lover's eyes as he contemplates change.
5. Beach mosquitoes bouncing against the window of a Jeep, trying to get inside.
6. Yellow pollen from bouquets of farmers' market flowers dusting the mahogany wood of my desk.
7. The New York City coastline from the window of an airplane.
8. A tall, skinny man in lace-trimmed red leggings and red high heels, marching down the street in Montpelier, Vermont, playing a trumpet in the Fourth of July parade.
9. The Milky Way.
10. Kool-Aid, as sweet as it was bright red, in a blue-topped plastic pitcher.

What have you seen lately?

"Things I've Seen" is a sporadically appearing list of visuality.

Comments

[jen]

this is lovely.

[Lisa]

1. migrating birds
2. lots of butterflies (the most ever since I've lived in Dayton!)
3. my short hair (just cut today....finally!!!)
4. my straighter teeth and wider smile (photos to come)
5. rugged holes in the ground where three lovely neighborhood English Oak trees used to be :(
6. my own creations published in a local literary 'zine
7. a fun new academic-year planner with a pink cover
8. and a brand new set of my favorite pens to go with it! :)
9. some fun new HSP blogs & sites that are helping me connect the dots to myself
10. a large quantity of potato chips as they made their way into my mouth tonight!!!