Fortunes

i put a single stem of beebalm – bright red shaggy head – in a green, wide- bottomed wine bottle & set it outside to see if the hummingbirds would come

the first summer crickets playing their rasps pick right up where they left off at the intermission, going on as if this brief stage were the whole of it

if you come for pizza bring a bar of ayurvedic soap a cut flower from your garden & a jar of cold soup – so thinks my friend L. who gives & gives from what little she has & calls herself lucky to be able to spare so much