Personally,
I found Joy
frequently
in fleeting moments
such as when
the forty finches
fly into the ten-foot-tall
hibiscus
for a breakfast buffet
of aphid ecstasy,
platters sparkling and
moist with dawn dew
while the sun undresses
all the buds and
peels back perfect petals
with warm invitation
as in seduction.
Watching my cat
Goose
standing bipedal and erect,
head cocked and
cackling quite curiously
at the busy borage of birds,
attempting to talk to them.
The finches
feel no fear
seeming to respect
that we were here
first,
fleeing only when full.
Image credit: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, Hibiscus splendens - flower, a rainforest tree or shrub of eastern Australia taken 11/2005 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
