Pausing to pick up small stones: December 2014

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

twitchy bird with a bright orange beak
pecks at a discarded pizza piece

empty carparks
and locked shop doors
sudden stillness after the rush

Tracking the online shopping order
on Christmas Eve, carols on the TV

deflated Santa, deflated tree
on a front lawn

beep beep beep ...
a bird somewhere

clumps of bright orange
on the corner tree

bubbles on the surface
waft of apricots in the air

a single white petal
tumbles from the rose bush

Trees on the sidelines
shaking their fists
at the road

smudge of chalk
on blue board
morning moon

half apricots on the tree
stones visible

decorated houses
stormy night
light show