Forgot

Halloween on a weekend

Max votes for change! 

Last Saturday of October,

Rocktober, we prefer.

Max

Forgot

Disengage. 

Turn off news.

Camp Pendleton range live ammo 

burns south of the ranch.

Beat alarm,

hike to greet sunrise 

at Mount Mine.

Forgot phone.

Forgot notebook.

Story ideas finish 

dry poem editing.

Liquid words flow unwritten.

Jupiter touches moon with curtains closed.

 Storm clouds hold sky captive.

Good omen Cleveland sage, not for writing.

Back in the cabin: idea headaches.

Did I drink box wine firmament?

Sulfide stuffy brain forgot the stanzas.

Jupiter did you take dictation?

Black coffee tastes of campfire perfume.

Forgot.

Keep writing, prickles return.

Caroline Gerardo Copyright October 29 2016

Images: windows in San Juan Bautista, burned field outskirts of

Creston, CA, The bean with my son video. 

Cactus Inspiration

Cactus in Glass Bubble
Our lives become closed in a shell.
Do you long to hear the song of waves inside the shell,
or prefer the comfort of a rain umbrella, a cozy you understand the corners in the dark?
Push beyond the smooth pathway, stand on burning rocks and listen to your heart.

Succulent Scape
Feels like the great eclipse and the diamond glass cutter may shatter?
Embrace the change with a joyful center, though your inner ear balance left you.
Walk on a tightrope of gossamer, for God's sake keep your chin up above fiberglass nets.
I kneel at your courage to rise from punching one more time, your lips part, smiling.

Glass Ornament for dry landscape
The desert only gets too much rain one day or smoke and fire.
It is the days in-between when you hike and work and go longer than ever before.
The word count, the chin ups, the hands shred to exposed muscle.
Then know you have done every inch of great.

Mini moonscape

Caroline Gerardo Copyright 2012
To make these ornament bubbles all you need is
 a couple tablespoons sand for the bottom, pebbles,
small succulents and water once a week.