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Showing posts with label a summer walk. Show all posts

a summer walk

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I walk alongside the barbed wire fence where the sun rests on my right shoulder. I'm standing tall among chicory, Queen Ann's lace, daisies, teasel & morning glories watching the insects gather pollen. They're situated in a rush of blues, whites, yellows & purples. 

I'm adrift in a weeded community looking up to the blue sky, cotton white clouds. I feel a cool, summer breeze wash my face. A tick climbs from this forest of color I'm immersed in and latches to my thigh like a child to a tree.

Walking with the sun to my left shoulder now. I've turned to see a salted bumblebee on a partially bloomed teasel. Its tasting purple sweetness along its circumference. I've bent down to meet the bumblebee on its clockwise rotation, closing this chasm between us. It engages me for a moment before continuing its work beneath the midday sun.