i look at you.

 

I look at you and I do not see

the passage of time.

 

I see my little girl

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eating birthday cake for breakfast

and

playing basketball at night,

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reading a book,

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playing in the neighborhood Olympics,

or holding tightly to a cuddle-worn “bun-bunny.” Continue reading “i look at you.”

formed on the shore (a granular whale-tale.)

I found a pile of sand.

So I stopped to ask, “What do you wish to be?”

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I was happy to see

a whale was he,

buried amongst the grainy pebbles below! Continue reading “formed on the shore (a granular whale-tale.)”

quarter of a century!

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The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

 

 

Continue reading “quarter of a century!”