More August poems and photos

Door-side table, decorated for company

in a wobbly hand

her thank-you letters

83rd birthday

(my mom)

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neighboring lawns die

above the red-brick fence

bougainvillea

~ ~ ~

                  My pitifully-blooming bougainvillea. Next year, I'll know to cut it 'way back.

from a pine needle

the raindrop shoots prisms

then falls

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thunderstorm brewing

early morning looking

like late evening

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predawn porch light

revealing both spider and web

in daylight, no trace

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early morning trip

sharing the road with the crows

and their breakfast

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Porch flag in the wind, August '18, Couchwood

spread by the winds

of midsummer

the dreaded thistle

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Yucca

bloom buds rising,

expanding in sunlight.

One day soon, they'll become three white

torches.

c 2018, PL d/b/a lovepat press, Benton AR USA

It's August already? --poems & pics

Spirea cluster in summer

her dreadlocks

dancing in rhythm with

the jump rope

                                                          Last year's dianthus

60th birthday

his goal: running from Ola

to Little Rock

singing along

in the grocery store "...Once, twice,

three times a la-a-dy."

                                                  Billy at work at Cracker Barrel, Bryant

spinning

in thin air

the redbud leaf

venetian blind

slicing sunshine

labored breathing

after sunset

cicadas

and the gibbous moon

Happy hour at The Inn at Piggott--Hemingway-Pfeiffer writers with mentor, Pat Carr (center)

August first

finding a Christmas napkin

under desk papers

c 2018, PL d/b/a lovepat press, Benton AR USA