morning jog I chase a grocery receipt across the parking lot

STONINGTON HARBOR LIGHT

If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you! ~Mehmet Murat Ildan

The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself. ~Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box

son's essay his handwritten paper travels to the northeast

autumn reverie fog tinged with wood smoke

stonington harbor light great views but we still can't find the car

cell phone buzz a bee here and there

mystery bird the immature goldfinch without its yellow

pumpkin spice candle flickers of inspiration

cast off shoes the lopsided heels of my last hike

a hint of rust in the maple my husband planted

sumac and poison ivy the red leaves before the fall election

published in Haikuniverse 9/13/2020

coffee stained cup the remnants of our last conversation

old travel map torn in all the same places

journaling one page of tomato sauce

birdsong I try to whistle along 

image stabilizer he uses one hand to steady the other

pond sunrise a few ripples from the remnants of hurricane laura

Calendar Inspiration (Nature Conservancy)

meerkats standing in the desert I want to be the one who looks the other way

lone duck climbing a mountain in the lake's reflection

summer break splashed by a penguin

somewhere in antarctica a seal leaning into the curve of its own body

water lily earth the orbit of a blue-eyed darner

unmowed field a ground squirrel rising out of the weeds

afternoon heat a skink disturbed by our disturbing the woodpile

wildflowers a deer bolting over the fence and into the fog

rabbit dreams the clover hides the box turtle

dry canyon maybe older than the arizona desert a small pine

bobcat territory the tracks end in the creek

prayer flowers the butterflies in attendance

autumn reverie just a hint of yellow along the rock bluff

missouri travel advisory the kentucky warbler didn't get the memo

heat index over 100 cooling off with a picture of last year's snow

mountain goats in the distance maybe this is what it means to be off the grid