Bananas & Updates

Carrot's gone to a new home. It's hard to think about it long enough to write about it, but the decision was right

The bananas have slowly been creeping back in lately

In my and all your lives 

It's been heat waves

and then downpours

COVID isolation, welcome at first

then prolonged

now emerged back into the world

it's been dozens of unformed essays

just hanging there, ethereal, in the uncertain universe

that's never actualized because the queen dies

and there's tweets to read

then you're tired and more tired, and even more tired

but never rest

there's tastes of friendships so enduring: the hour long phone calls, the comfort of a group reunited, the laughs at jokes everyone remembers, the overlapping blankets on a park lawn, the flight searches

life right now is reminding yourself of the things you love

the actual things. You already know you love the people

it's the blue blanket, the new running shoes, the small mugs

the book you read at the corner bar

it's the bay when it makes those lap-lap-lapping sound as a wave hits the shore and reminds you it too is a little part of the ocean

a fraction of your heart is being carried around in a doughy chihuahua who doesn't live here any more

but another part is being dusted off, sat upright, and told to take deep breaths, and go forth

Hawaii, from Marian

Oregon, from Matthew

California (I think), from Anna

Office, from Trevor

Banana a la Modern Art, from Trevor

Diego Rivera Exhibit, SF, from Trevor

Waikiki, from Marian

Walking home :) by me