Repetition

There is the kind that stultifies,
but also the kind that soothes
through the mindful tending to a ritual.

Daylily

On occasion you will see
that splash of orange,
a daylily, present all along,
different enough from the rest
to be the creation of a new way.

invoking the self-state
that you need
at a given moment

After the Rain

I can finally hear the songbirds'
distant warbling
and the trail of sound an airplane makes.

The dark skies of noon have lifted
and in its wake, rain
heavy on the dark green leaves
capturing the moment
when an eight-year-old joins the present.