babaruss
11-16-2008, 03:54 PM
<CENTER>It’s cool and damp for a June morning; fog drifts </CENTER><CENTER>up from the river, moving rapidly towards us.</CENTER><CENTER>The tall fir trees softly disapearing, and in mere</CENTER><CENTER>minutes we have become a small, vibrant </CENTER><CENTER>green, island, surrounded by a sea of gray.</CENTER><CENTER>Sudden movement in the loquat tree tells me</CENTER><CENTER>breakfast is being served. Limbs jerk, leaves rustle,</CENTER><CENTER>parting but an instant, time enough to reveal blue,</CENTER><CENTER>white fluttering within...two hungry Scrub Jays</CENTER><CENTER>devouring fruit, still wet from the morning dew.</CENTER><CENTER>Emmalie is going through her morning feeding ritual; </CENTER><CENTER>a bite of this, the putting on, and taking off of that,</CENTER><CENTER>a sip of coffee, and the pile of rejects grow. Caught up</CENTER><CENTER>again in her frenzied search for just that perfect match</CENTER><CENTER>of colors for her day adrift in a sea of office gray.</CENTER><CENTER>Dropping rejects where she stands...unintentionally</CENTER><CENTER>creating for me my morning exercise program</CENTER><CENTER>of bend, stretch, reach, until everything is back on </CENTER><CENTER>hanger, or in a drawer.</CENTER><CENTER>Her decision made, one final check in front of the</CENTER><CENTER>mirror, a glance at me... for some word of approval,</CENTER><CENTER>(just beautiful I say). She takes her lunch from my</CENTER><CENTER>hand while rushing out the door...pausing at the</CENTER><CENTER>gate to give me last minute instructions.</CENTER><CENTER>‘The don’t forgets’ is what I call them: don’t forget</CENTER><CENTER>Tipper’s ears, and don’t forget to dose the sparrows.</CENTER><CENTER>Don’t forget to water the yard...each one called back</CENTER><CENTER>over her shoulder as she move purposely out the gate</CENTER><CENTER>towards her car. And as she drives away I drift slowly back </CENTER><CENTER>into the house, lost in my own sea of fog, promising myself</CENTER><CENTER>‘I won’t forget’. </CENTER>