"We are passing you on
your left and
one of us might lick your knee"
-Woman and her dog passing me
on the bike path.

LHC

For unadulterated nerdy silliness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

After the rain
Elm,
Kiln and
Shawsheen nice and full.
cicadas in full chorus.
lone bull frog croaking
green, green, green.
mr. rogers koan guided me
"sometimes it is fun to do
things slow"

A women and a man approach
me on bikes, the woman in
front. Each wear those little rear
view mirrors on their helmets
that remind me of little
teleprompters.
The woman says hi,
I say hi,
The man gives a toot
with his nether eye.

Typical family vacation rule:
"Don't run by the pool"
Wicked cool family vacation rule:
"Watch out for dead animals in the stream, they
attract boa constrictors"

Typical phone call conversation:
"Getting much rain there"
Not so typical phone call conversation:
"Damn it, you snaked that gift idea
out from under me"

Typical picnic lunch conversation in the park:
"How is work going"
Not an everyday picnic conversation in the park:
"How far back in time will the dead come back
to life as zombies?" "As long as there is enough
musculature to support movement, ie:
NO zombie skeletons"

Outside my window
at Lexington Corporate Center
Building One
it is a worm gold mine
for the robins.

Job security

Orange day lilies
stretch towards the sun
and I brush by the leathery
petals with my
arms and legs
enabling me to
put pollinator on
my resume.

In retrospect

While it didn't,
in and of itself,
doom my marriage,
starting it by
taking a vow invoking
ritualistic
cannibalism tempted
the fates.