Day 27 NaPoWriMo 2022

Posted on April 28, 2022 by Mary Beth Frezon

Ooops! Night slipped away and I almost forgot to post!

visitors to the
front yard garden in the night
toppled bird feeder

Hoof prints by new plants
covered up with chicken wire
and some hair trimmings

the deer have eaten
bushes, hosta, daylilies
garden as buffet

If you look at yesterday’s post you’ll see some of the hair I scattered in the garden to deter the salad bar fans. First picture here, is one of the new primroses just after planting. It lost probably three quarters of its leaves. The second photo shows the other fancy primrose (must be extra tasty!) after the first night. It lost more the next night until I rummaged up some chicken wire to tent over both of them.

In other news, I got my palette ready for painting whatever geraniums come this way this year!

geranium palette

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Day 26 NaPoWriMo 2022

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Mary Beth Frezon

Hey now, I did try to sort out some small brown birds at the feeder, some stripey and some not. I did my Welsh lesson. I started to clean out a palette. I listened to Billy Collins. You know, I did stuff. I checked to see if the new deer deterrent was working (yes). Oh and I found the tag for one of the new cat “beds” and found out it’s a **bolster** and may not be suitable for all pets… ok.

today – didn’t do much
nothing much important
now night rescues me

pillows all arranged
a small stack, a glass of wine
and then it’s lights out

tomorrow – I’ll see
what happens as the day goes
words or watercolors?

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Day 25 NaPoWriMo 2022

Posted on April 25, 2022 by Mary Beth Frezon

Guess what I did today.

Tell me what you see
and now? now is just a guess
too small, far away.

look straight ahead now
now right, left, up, and now down
now the other side.

in a darkened room
small space made large with mirrors
my eyes wide open.

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Day 24 NaPoWriMo 2022

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Mary Beth Frezon

sweater from the car
warm from spending the day there
now I’m the warm one

was warm in my hands
warm going over my head
warm as a lover

blue cooling twilight
i’m wearing back to the house
the sun’s remainder

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Day 23 NaPoWriMo 2022

Posted on April 23, 2022 by Mary Beth Frezon

I did a quick survey of conveyors of Indian food today – and drove, thinking to do take out, which meant I should have also done a search for nearby parks but when I got to this little place in a small strip mall, it was actually very nice and not quite empty so I sat down and ate. And ate. And went home with two bags of naan!

Looking for Indian food
I try to remember my first,
how and where,
who would have convinced me
to join them in
something so exotic.
Later, I bit
into a cardamon pod
tasting only gratitude.

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