Kit Kelen #169 - calendar blank

169

calendar blank

nothing on today

no 'scheduled events'

no one is coming so far as we know

a clear calm day

comes slow to light

starts best with the stretches

and what's for breakfast?

(I think I know)

and what's for lunch and dinner?

then that busy old fool arrives

(we have some history)

and here's a whole sky looking in

with kookaburras, yellow breasts

white arsed swampy blues

some test how small a bird can be

and there are insects too

brave wintering diaphanous

and dance cards always full

and then the RAAF

(insects writ large)

I meet them all on my rounds

and note some secret missions too

dead mouse is somewhere, overstaying

whiffy laundry is a visitation

compost would like to go outside

that blank page in the diary

is full of plots and calculation

stray lines that seek the flock

and here's the wind come, right on cue

and then a first few drops drop in

we run around like mad things

ahead of the storm predicted –

our evening guest

give me such

blank calendar days

and I'll count myself blessed