Cooler

Finally... cooler weather.  My daughter starts school Monday.  It is way early (when I was growing up we started around Labor Day).  Maybe the cooler weather arrived for her.  It has been a very hot summer, and I know we*re most likely not done with the heat yet.  But still, I welcome coolness here and now.  I think and see and hear better in coolness.  

Today is cooler

With potential to walk

The small spit of the backyard,

Investigate the creek.

Today is to trim

The bushes.

Grown wild,

They have needed haircuts

For two months at least.

My daughter and I got our toenails done

Yesterday;

A small thing, yes,

But somehow large as well.

Mine are pale pink,

Hers more noticeably

Fuchsia.

Today,

Like yesterday,

Is cooler.

I see things more clearly

With doors open

To the outside.

A light breeze blows possibility

Through the house.

I hear things more finely,

The air conditioned muffle gone

Chip chip chip

A chipping sparrow is on the edge

Of the front walk

There is a background

Of cicadas.