May 31, 2007

• May’s Simple Pleasures

  

  ~ Homemade hamburger buns. 
  My mom made the best. 
  I wish I had lessons from her.
  Do you see the baby’s breath and greenery in the pitcher? 
  They are lovely remnants of my Mother’s Day bouquet;
  I’m eager to use the pitcher as a pitcher!

  

  ~ Pansies.  They grow where other plants die.
  This box at the foot of our driveway lives
  under our neighbor’s pine tree.
  My SIL Val laughs that every space needs a ‘little splash of yellow.’

  

  ~After years of waiting, the hostas have filled in the north side of the house.

  

  ~ My girlfriend’s 12 year old son, whose last day of school was last Friday.
  He showed up on my doorstep and said,
  “I have a critical, desperately important question. 
  Do you have any books on ancient history,
  particularly on the Romans?”
  I gave him Genevieve Foster’s Augustus Caesar’s World.
  He’s also reading through my collection of Oxford
  and Cambridge edition Shakespeare plays.

  ~ A new poet: Edward Taylor.  Come back tomorrow for a taste!

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