02-01-2025, 06:01 AM
Renewal
This afternoon
through narrow interstices of my picket fence
I saw a little pink-dressed girl
managing a hoe
at my new neighbor’s beck.
Just flashes
hair ribbon
an old man’s eye, concerned
red handle-stick
small flexed bare arm.
I hope they don’t disturb
the wrens which nest
in a dry brown
disused garden there.
This afternoon
through narrow interstices of my picket fence
I saw a little pink-dressed girl
managing a hoe
at my new neighbor’s beck.
Just flashes
hair ribbon
an old man’s eye, concerned
red handle-stick
small flexed bare arm.
I hope they don’t disturb
the wrens which nest
in a dry brown
disused garden there.
Non-practicing atheist