Scene One


Hard wind in October blows the patio furniture off the deck
Upending the balance of summer

Moments ago
Your bike was abandoned on the driveway
Colored by chalk and pink nail polish

In old shorts and hand-me-down t-shirt
You ran with shouts and in character
Filling in the space where sunshine stopped in the corners of the afternoon

The trees,
Full and green as shade umbrellas
for little bodies interlaced with sweat and bandaids
playing like nothing else mattered

It’s all changing and
soon will be gone

hoping for another chance to get it right

Introduction

We sat there awkwardly
waiting for something to change

cars on the highway rushed by
leaving shooting trails of light and dirt
a shot of anticipation

Watching your car
winding quickly around the corner
the way it goes when you've come to far to go back

Barefoot and wearing a winter coat in fall
you offer up your hand and
an almost sigh

more information to manage

All compressed into minutes, dark and mostly wordless
we handled the boys from one car to another

(for Lisa)

Hi. It's been a long, long time. I quite simply forgot about this blog for a while. I forgot the password and everything. It was interesting to me that a few people had noticed it and left a comment. Anyway, I need an outlet for writing. So this blog is going to be it. Get ready, set, go....

October 2009

It's been a very long time since I've blogged. My apologies. Summer has a way of taking you away from things that winter has a way of returning. Like returning to the warmth of the indoors and the computer screen. I've published a poem below. Hopefully it's the first in a series.

Ganapati continues to emerge. A small group of like minded friends has gathered around the project and blankets have been purchased with donations from the recent Global Mala gathering through the Anahata Project...Thank You Amy!

Be well,

cw

New Poem

After 5

The way this works:


I collect you with what’s left of my efficiency
Your roiling energy meets my limp

I have so little to give you.


dinner from a freezer
a quickstep through homework
a handful of pennies
perhaps a bath

I bought the shampoo with you in mind,

tangerine
to match your sunny sweetness

like a high wattage bulb, you keep the lights on in here

in this space, between the old life and our future,
we are building
a monument with scheduled blocks of time

to continually remind me who we could be.

Community Involvement

Below is a link to an article on the Hunger Task Force's website. This was a project at UWM that I was involved with a few months ago....can you find me in the photo?

http://www.hungertaskforce.org/donate/great_examples_of_giving.php

Be well...cw

Kittens and Commitment

We've got new kittens and we're pretty excited about it.  Lucy and Eve both have their own special kitty-both girls-Namaste (grey) and Starry Night (black with white socks and markings). Really cute and a little naughty-just like kittens should be.