they were having coffee on the
front porch yakkin
You’ll excuse me, I gotta hit the
head.
Rock on
Refill reheat your coffee
A refill would be nice.
they stood simultaneouslyhe took
both mugs
Meetcha
back out here
he bounced whole milk off the bottom
of his buddys cup took his black went back outside set buddys cup on the metal whiteenameled café
table held his as he stood at the railingadmiring
a hawk working the sky overhead
What’s going on in the hall outside
the bathroom?
Goin on
A shrine, an altar?
Lefties ashes
It’s got the glimmerings of
religiousness.
Her place
Strikes me, a memorial for a cat. rolled his eyes like a
loon
Yahappen to look above her ashes
I did not.
The painting there Ive shared with you before
Painting of a tree
I didn’t notice.
Ought to be more observant tout
yourself as being so
But ya noticed enough to
assume religion
It looks staged.
Not staged
Happened Organically
Paintings been in the
hall on the bookcase since midTwentythree Leftie died Tuesday December Tenth
The tree in the painting I saw in
Sedona on the grounds of the Amitabha Stupa in Peace Park It is Buddhist
See? Religion.
Philosophy
Then I was consumed by the Tibetan prayer
flags tha abound on the grounds around the stupa I felt a foreign fullnessmaybe not foreign inside me
Something like when Im in the mountains
I
felt something akin to tha
Akin to the favour an fullness leftie gave
me
Which I unfortunately took for granted because she was so young
So it is a shrine.
Had you observed in the upper righthand corner of the painting
is a hawk tha was not in the photo I asked Collin to take
Anielas spirit animal is a
hawkyou havent one do you
Mines the buffalo
If a
second choice were possibleit is not my
second woud be the hawk
Still . . . you insist it is not
religious.
Spiritual
Ought to shaddup your coffees gettin cold
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