Sun's Up

The scrabbling outside the window is Sunrise,

she's hanging amid the scarlet runner bean's

orange blossoms halfway up the trellis,

a scolding hummingbird just out of reach.

(Sunrise: a year old tabby cat)

Rinse

Sunlight and hot water fall together

bubbling onto dandelion yellow plates

stacked in the old white ceramic sink.

Highland Games Pipe Band Competition

Three smartly kilted pipers 

from the head of the column

marches an enthusiastic drummer

with a most un-martial bounce.

Dots

Drying elderberry florets

scattered like creamy confetti

over green hammock stripes.

Loosen Up

Orange daylily quick sketched 

on the edge of a paper

where it doesn’t matter 

touched up with colored pencil.

Hey - not bad!

All That Is Left of the Foxgloves

Fistfulls of bells at the long stalk tops -

cream and orchid torches.

Writing at Nightfall

Eyes lift from typing,

the window sneers blackly. 

Lower the shade - stop the night

from swallowing my words!