GRIZZLY PEAR
Nine.
Lovely number.
Three times three.
A square.
Double happiness.
Now there’s four.
Another square!
Took the morning off and visited:
Spring Ranch State Park, preserved.
Bonnie Springs, closed no access.
Cactus Joe’s, open for business.
Vanguard.com, betting on the future.
What will happen in eighteen years?
(we met eighteen years ago)
Thirty-six.
Yet another square!
䷅䷋
the people of his town
three hundred housholds
remain free of guilt
我可以做 GATE-test 吗?
Can I take the GATE test?
He just got the regular 4 year old shots.
She took the GATE test after her second shot.
But there are no COVID shots for 4 year olds.
How much longer?
䷣䷕
first he climbed up to heaven
then he plunged into the depths of the earth
Squabble.
The sound is the meaning.
First to wash your hands.
She started eating early.
Whether to play this,
Or that.
Who’s cleaning up?
He isn’t.
The joyous din of growing up.
The house will be quiet soon.
From whence the squabbles then?
䷆䷺
in the middle of the earth is water
the image of the army
Appliances are simple machines.
The dryer is a big tube with a fire.
The kids came upstairs to watch me replace the solenoid coils.
The drum face down on the floor,
The top flipped up,
The front panel against the wall,
The shell an empty cube with a small motor and some electronics.
“Wow, so cool!” She said.
He repeated “Wow, so cool!”
He repeated “Wow, so cool!”
He repeated “Wow, so cool!”
䷚䷗
awareness of dnager brings good fortune
it furthers one to cross the great water
Last year, I memorized the I Jing sequence.
Hexagrams, English, Chinese!
In order.
Then Magic the Arena.
My life dissolved into an online haze.
Four months disappeared.
A few more months to clean up.
Now I’m re-memorizing the the sequence.
It’s painful to scrape the memory banks.
I know all this, but I don’t.
Ancient wisdom?
Trivia?
Prognostication:
What will sidetrack me next?
䷫䷴
if one is mindful of the danger
no great mistake is made
He tried to stuff the pants onto the high shelf.
Just out of reach.
Even on tippy toes.
Nope.
Again.
And again.
He quit.
What is that a sullen look on his face?
Is it concentration?
He returned, with a stool from downstairs.
Mission accomplished.
䷙䷉
the headboard of a young bull
great good fortune
I am the waiter.
I serve cake on ping pong paddles.
He is the cook.
He bakes desserts in a green cardboard box.
She is the chef,
And the owner (according to the menu).
She is also a patron,
With all the stuffed animals.
Waiting on the couch,
Seated around yoga blocks.
A cake restaurant has overrun the living room.
“Today, our special is a Blueberry Chocolate Sunrise.”
䷎䷇
no boasting of wealth before one’s neighbor
it is favorable to attack with force
He told her a story
in broken English.
It was my story
and my sister’s.
The immigrant story.
Each generation.
Home after home.
At the tips of each little tongue.
䷙䷸
the tusk of a gelded boar
good fortune
Three pages
every morning.
Unleash the unconsious
on paper.
Half an hour
Before real life
(or spreadsheets)
One month down,
The first notebook too.
Precious solitude.
䷻䷏
enthusiasm that looks upward creates remorse
hesitation brings remorse
She unraveled his construction.
A black string woven through bars of the baby gate.
I hadn’t seen it yet.
The boy was devastated.
She didn’t realize it was important.
Really?
The whole house is a mess.
Why start with this?
䷡䷲
a goat butts against a hedge
and gets its horns entangled