Flights- 7: Purchased

 

7: Purchased 

Forgiveness 

It got delivered 

Somewhere else 

Ordered another 

Because 

Customer service 

Always sucks

And it came 

Out of date

What 

Do you do

With 

Forgiveness 

That’s 

Gone 

Off

Flights- 6: Life’s Skeleton Key

 

6: Life’s Skeleton Key

Upside down 

Lots 

Lost

What’s left

Right turn

Unlock 

Uncertain Futures 

Unlikely 

Outcome 

Pathways To Nowhere 

Stranger

They Won’t Accept You

There

Steal This Poem

 

Take it

TAKE IT 

With its lent

And bent

Empty tubes

And spindles

Orange y’smart

As the jeopardy 

Comes on

You knew 

Every last melody 

And sang it like 

It was yours

As the wind blew

Thru trees

And your teeth

Flights- 5: Tip Jar

 

5: Tip Jar

My mind

Tip 

Your server 

Tip me over

To

Empty 

The mess

That lives

Rent

Free

Forever 

Living 

There

Take a breath 

Start again 

Flights- 4: Watching Tv On The Moon

 

4: Watching Tv On The Moon

Counting down 

The Hours 

Till

The Moon Comes up 

Crossing the sky

With Its Reflection 

In the water 

As I Reflect

On Imaginings

Of what’s Under The surface 

Rock?

Rivers?

Love?

Luminous Love?

Maybe Ancestors?

Waiting for your visit 

On an easy chair 

Watching tv

Get your tickets 

We 

Need to know 

Let’s Talk Gardening! Yarding 2021

 I never knew 

That I would love Gardening this much! 

I didn’t even think 

I would enjoy mowing a lawn-

Not that we have a lawn… anymore 

I could barely keep 

A houseplant alive!

That was then & this is now.

Knowing what little I know now about plants

Soil

Trees

Carbon capture 

And now being in charge of a small plot of land

I want to be as responsible as possible 

As well as catering to my personal tastes 

And make something lush

And self sustaining for whoever 

Comes along to enjoy this wee corner 

Of the world next…

When we first moved here 

There weren’t any signs of animals 

Although the neighbors said there were

Deer 

Moose

Bears

Etc…

We weren’t being visited by anything 

I kept hoping for at least a squirrel 

The second year 

We started seeing squirrels 

And more 

As the years went

With help from our bird feeders

Then learning about pollinators and plants

I tried going to the garden center 

And with very little knowledge or guidance 

I picked out some pretty plants and popped them in the ground

Not knowing growing zones or the 

Ins and outs of

light requirements 

***

None of those plants survived 

And the first couple of years not much happened

Except for the bittersweet that was here

Which we are still battling 

***

Third year as I was watching as things were springing up 

We had a patch of daffodils 

Why after two years they came up 

I don’t know 

Maybe freeing up the space from bittersweet 

Helped somehow?

And so my research began 

I was looking up info 

About other bulb types plants

Like tulips

And stumbled across YouTube channels 

That were taking the mystery out of it all for me

It was all starting to make sense 

And then of course 

Beginning to learn about permaculture 

And essentially helping nature be abundant 

On its own

And be

Whatever it wants

While getting out of its way

And capture carbon while we’re at it

So…

Two years ago I brought in hundreds

 of different types of plants

And shrubs 

And a huge amount of them are actually still out there 

And thriving!

Progress!!!

And the generosity of friends 

Sharing plants that they’d divided

And gifted me like:

Bee Balm

Day Lilies 

Wisteria 

Persicaria Lance Corporal

Rose of Charon

Daisies 

Lilac 

Hostas

Solomon’s Seal

These

Have added to the lasting excitement 

And brought so much enjoyment 

And now we have an amazing array of volunteer plants: 

Wild Roses

Queen Anne’s Lace

Black Eyed Susans

Persicarias

Raspberries 

Meadowsweet 

Creeping Charlie 

Wild Violets 

Goldenrod 

Jewel Weed

Tall Phlox 

Milk Weed

Serviceberries 

Wild Cherry

To name a few lol

I try to just get out of the way

And let nature plant itself 

Of course taking out anything that’s 

Invasive or poisonous 

Since we stopped mowing our grass

Leaving only a path in the frontage and a small eating area

In the back

We’ve been slowly reseeding any thin patches with clover 

To hopefully eliminate the need for constant upkeep 

In the summer months 

And the clover is making the pollinators happy 

And helps balance 

Nitrogen levels in the soil…

The front path 

Has only been mowed twice this summer 

So happy that the once a week hour in the heat and bugs

Can now be used for enjoyment or other projects 

***

Speaking of other projects 

We had our friends from ArborClimb 

Come out to help us knock back our canopy 

By one notch… this ended up being 

72 trees 

And we seriously still have so many trees!

Some were sick and dead

Some were over 100 feet tall 

And within 25 feet from the house

And we still have 

More than we can count 

That are dead-standing 

60ft tall

That we will be chipping away at…

Until that’s done…

We now have enough sun 

That plants that had never bloomed 

Are now living their best life 

***

And I’m trying 

To get a good sunny spot for seed starting 

Should be much easier 

And I need easier because I’m still 

Very inexperienced 

As a gardener  

Any help I can get!

***

It was an easy choice 

To go with a tree removal company 

That would take the logs for lumber 

And

Leave us the wood chips

 To help get rid of 

The lumps and bumps 

In our landscape 

And 

Squelch out the bittersweet

 In enough depth to Keep it from thriving 

                                  Future garage idea… ???

I’m so thrilled 

That so many native plants have been moving in!

                                              Lookit!

                               So much Queen Anne’s Lace!

                                       Oh and Hello 👋 

Kk that’s it! Doing this all from my phone and now my eyes are super tired lol what’s growing in your garden? 

All of My Plans Got Ruined!

 Pout!

Not really!

I’ve been trying to make 

A garden progress 

Post…

But…

My head keeps spitting out poetry 

And being a balloon in the sky

When I want it to be structured.

That pic of the wreath is a work in progress too…

When was the last time I finished a project???

Like this???

The hutch on the left was to move to the kitchen…

Project started in March.

See I have 

No idea

Who the hell I am right now?

And whose body is this?

Nerve pain all the time? 

In several joints and muscle systems?

I even had a dream last night about

Going to a reiki treatment…

I used to have treatments every two weeks or so…

And they were really working 

And no I’m living the proof of not having them…

Frikkin pandemic.

Sigh

This too shall pass…

Flights- 3: The Details

 

3: The Details 

Easy enough 

To

Take Flight

When

There’s Nothing 

Left

To lose 

With

Working hands

Having 

Laid to rest

The Devil

In

The Details 

Flights- 2: Resiliency

 

2: Resiliency 

Chipped away 

Angels 

Have turned their backs 

Have I

Lost the ability 

To listen 

Counter intuitive 

Success 

Held at bay

Negotiations 

For Hostages 

Me 

And the child Within 

100%

Dug in heels 

Tug 

Of war

In your Cafe 

With 

Lots of Tea

Pour

A cup 

Of Resiliency 

For me

As If

 

You show up

Uninvited 

Like you own the place 

Cheery lookin

Face tilted 

Towards the sun

And you want me 

To be happy 

That you graced us

With your presence 

As if 

Little sunflower 

As if

Gardens, metaphor idk … that whole lions gate portal of August is in full swing - I’m used to the summer weather- the goldenrod is blooming- more poetry is coming- and I made a ton of research breakthroughs with my book “She Belongs To Me”- finding that I have a portion of genealogy that can be traced back to the 1600s and on of the “Lords of England” lol intriguing- now I will fight to stay focused on the book at hand and not become totally obsessed with looking into the hijinks that went on back then… and at the same time focusing on survival, life is going to change in just a few weeks with the new virus variant and unemployment running out and social engagements work money health societal collapse impending doom several books collections of poems elderly pets anxious partners living and gratitude omgwtf and then the weather patterns of 2008… 

How are you? Lol 

Flights -1- High Fives

 

1- High Fives

I go to sleep 

Every night 

Knowing 

No one Will ever Hear my Words

The tone of my voice

As I tell My Truth

Which is all

Worth

Nothing

To anyone 

Who would 

Give 

Two shoes

About 

Anyone 

Like me

I can take Care

Of myself 

All everyone ever wants

Is 

Smiling 

Happy 

Giggles 

And High Fives

Plants, Plants, And More Plants!

Plants Everywhere!!!

At least that’s what it feels like…

And some of them are getting huge- 

The indoor planty friends 

Have been getting a nice re-potting moment-

Happy plants in the broken showah 

LoL

There’s some wildfire smoke skies at sunset 

Animal Crossing 

Monday mood

The oak leaf hydrangea is getting it pink hue on!

***

Play with all the boxes 

Take all the naps

The backyard that has been too rainy to hang out in…

New baby leaves…

Bc I had to rejuvenation prune the azalea 

Oh hai

I will definitely let this guy eat the leaves of my service berry!

Shhhh…. I’m hiding…

Me too kid, me too…