Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Circle of trust

Like other manifestations
close to home,
we can count on
the trumpet vine's repeat showing-up
(ah, just showing-up
= 99% of any effort)
Like the door after door
after door after door
pounding of my college son's
door-by [ad infinitum] - door
10 hours per day, 6 days per week
educational book-selling
summer job
pushing on
just showing up
on people's porches
with a smile
The pervasive
insistent
unrelenting
happy
trumpet vines.
The annual buds of this year
two thousand and eight
have begun to form.

The close-up shows them

next to some of last year's blossoms

turned to seed pods.

Banked money.

There may be some poetry in that

but again, we don't see it.

We're typists.........

pound, pound, pound


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