this is how we get across—
the days
when pink is a necessity
we meet for lunch and Susan’s taking pictures—
people celebrate . . .
what we don’t understand—
for smallest, delicate and evanescent thoughts—
we offer rest to friends. 
our pictures travel back and forth
in boats of willow wands
as we prepare what we will gather, what we’ll weave
to get ourselves across.
images: tree in front of Roma’s, Greeley, Colorado, photo: siouxzenbird; shelf cloud over Rapid City South Dakota, photographer unknown; Storm at Airport, Stevens Point City Times, photo: Kevin Phillips; Stone carving, New Grange, Ireland; Visnu Anantasayana, Balaju, Nepal; Edie’s Camp, Hopevale, photo: Dorothy Clews; Christ Pantocrater; view from Heroncrest, photo: Carolyn Hearne; Sky-Tract Matrix detail and privet rose detail, tapestries, and darning rock by Margaret Sunday; Coracle by Sarah C. Swett and Henry C. Edwards, photo: Sheila C. Swett