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