1 post tagged “park”

I got chilly sitting in the park,
between the iced coffee and the breeze.
I tried to beat the rain home, and won.
Handily.

The raindrops on my notebook
were empty threats
from a rushing, busy, gray scale sky.

Indoors was uninspiring.
Dreams don't caper and play on the ceilings like they do in the heavens.

Unladylike and eager,
I crawled out on our third floor fire escape.
The buildings nearly kiss up there
and I could hear, clearer than the traffic on the road,
the upbeat life in a neighbor's apartment.

I am afraid of heights,
but giddily, hungrily so.
My stomach jumped like happy dolphins
while I sat writing out my dreams,
a few stories above the earth.

He spoke with the declarative inspiration of a born explorer,
"I'm going to go outside."
His mother's answer was distorted and far away.
"Yeah, I'm going outside," he repeated.
And he did.

He is somewhere between six and eight years old
with the big brown eyes of someone beloved.
He was closer to me than any other human being at that moment.
I smiled and said, "Hello."
He was concentrating on getting the rest of his body out of the window onto his fire escape
but he paused and answered in kind.
And righted himself like a well made ship
And clomped down the clangy metal stairs.

Upon reaching the yard, he checked out everything
with the easy-going habit of the young and the curious --
the mailbox, who's on the porch, what's behind the neighbors gate?
Once the perimeter was secure he had to check in with his personnel,
"Hello up there, " he called to me.
"Hello down there," I echoed back.