Dreaming buffalo

 The Bison were passing

Or was I dreaming

I was an ancient Indian

In the twilight hunting

Haiku sway

 Haiku sway

Quietly now

The passing begins

Enter now

As time suspends

Entry of memory

 Entry point

John Clare Stokes

Savor when we dreamed of walking

down to the out going tide

finding the first shells waiting 

with little ones at our side.

Full circle

 Full Circle

Oleanders

The little boy knew one who longed

for the bouquets from a long gone son

So he went down to the year 1888

To gather some in her longing state.

Oleanders

Vincent Van Gogh

1888

“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painters soul.”

April in February

 Crossroads 

John Clare 

Do you recall the early times

when you were sort of mine

The day languishing on

awaiting to walk you home

Today to the memory

I ordered some thin mint

Girl Scout cookies 

The little wild eyed beauty knew

She saw right through me

To the corner of Lexington and Main

and I didn’t have to explain

It was April in February 

Not at Winn Dixie

But Fitches IGA.

Its Eagles

I watched the first half of the SB, by then you knew the outcome. I then watched Michael Savage on Newsmax and then All creatures great and small on PBS. By then it was 40 to 20 something for the Eagles. I never saw any DOGE commercials. As usually most of the commercials, halftime and anthem were terrible.

 

To profundis

 De profundis 

Poetry in image

And should I enter sharply defined

How would you know it is i

But as I enter hidden in sublime

Would not you know immediately

I've arrived

Home by dark

 

Crawfordville

 The beginning of the love. Before the  turn of the century, on March 19, 1896, John Milton Towles married Luceil Rehwinkel of Crawfordville. She was 18.  For his new bride, he purchased two Camellia bushes which they planted in their front yard on either side of the porch steps of the then new home on Aaron Road, built by the former slave, Mr Louis  Gavin. John Milton Towles died in 1930 at the age of 60. Lucile never remarried and lived alone in the home until her death in 1977 at the age of 99. In her later years before going to a nursing home, she was blind. Her cane marks on the floor could be seen. Years later, in the early 1960's,my father purchased Mrs Lucile's  home along with her two Camellias. When my father sold the home in 2000, someone came and dug up the two bushes. I trust they are still alive somewhere in Wakulla County.

My world

In my world

Every house a little pink house

With plenty of greens just outside

Lots of cotton candy in the field

And grass to park on rebelliously 

Goats galore to worship with 

Come Sunday

See, in my world

I’m quite happy. 

Conestoga

 Last night we went to Alachua to get the car keys we left in Williston Sunday. We ate at the Conestoga with Billie, Rochelle and Diane. Mel paid. I drove home. 

Slippery when wet

 The river reveals the ramp

Dowling Park

Suwannee