What I noticed today

A monarch butterfly spread its wings as I opened the back door.

The vitex is still blooming.

The liriope’s purple flowers never cease to amaze me.

I’m a good cook. I ate leftover parmigiana for lunch.

My friends are fabulous.

Artists are gifts to us.

My body does what I tell it to do – grateful.

There is never enough time to do all of the things, but there is time enough to do many things.

I can live anywhere.

We are deeply resilient people.

All of us are giving birth to something right now.

Every one got a little piece of me today, but I saved the best for last – myself.

The circus is free. Free I tell you, free.

El Circo

From Yin to fullness, a guffaw at the pit
of desolation, except you ride, you don’t fall.

Below as above.
Spin as you stand.

The horse, well, it is an intermediary—
a form you can speak of, a vernacular of ancestral hues.

The trees sing with many circled mouths,
each mouth an echo inside the blood-sap flesh.

The arms as galactic instructions,
the branches, the tenfold directions.

Each eye
each seed—you tumble, you explode
the only feeling is non-feeling.

Call it joy, call it she-hair,
this negative of all negatives.

~Juan Felipe Herrera

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