The Daily Breath - Wednesday, March 2, 2022

 

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

 

I had to get up early on two counts:

First, GARBAGE DAY

I had to keep an eye on things

I ordered a BIG green bin

To replace our LITTLE green bin

Because we need more room to put

Tree scraps and scrapings

Cuttings and choppings

ORGANICS

That’s the word

I had to put a sign on the little green bin

That said: “Do not remove

This bin is being replaced by a large bin”

So I got up and went out at 6:30 a.m.

The green organics bin and the blue recycle bin

Had already been emptied

So I put the sign on the former

With a big rock on top

To hold the sign in place

And the latter

I dragged back to its resting spot

Not quite out of sight

Along the side of the garage

In the meantime

The big grey trash bin had also been emptied

So  I brought it back at 7:30 a.m.

 

And  when I came out again

At 9:30 a.m.

There was my new big green ORGANICS bin

Waiting for me

 

I would have been happy to have gone

Back to bed

But the second count was WRITERS GROUP

First Wednesday of the month

So I zoomed in

And did what I was committed

To do

WROTE

By hand

For forty minutes

Everyone who read what they wrote

didn’t seem to have noticed

There was a war going on

We were given a couple of prompts

That dealt with happiness

And water

And everyone’s writings were full of the

Beauties of nature and other

Meditative

Poetics

But all I could think about was

The war

And the people of Ukraine

Evacuating

With their beautiful babies

And the best I could come up with

Honoring the prompts

Was that

The young soldiers of the Ukraine were

Happy

To have water

To drink