Counting Palm Trees

everyone else is doing it so why can't we?

[bottlecap-press]

From Darren Higgins’s chapbook, The Bird is Gone, available from Bottlecap Press! https://bottlecap.press/products/_birddh

[huariqueje]

Imminence of Twilight - Shoko Okumura , 2019.

Japanese , b. 1983 -

Pigments, gold leaf on Japanese paper , 60 x 45 cm.

[unplaces]

Newville Rd, Orland, California.

[apoemaday]

Last Day on Earth

by Lawrence Raab

If it’s the title of a movie you expect everything to become important — a kiss, a shrug, a glass of wine, a walk with the dog.

But if the day is real, life is only as significant as yesterday — the kiss hurried, the shrug forgotten, and now,

on the path by the river, you don’t notice the sky darkening beyond the pines because you’re imagining what you’ll say at dinner,

swirling the wine in your glass. You don’t notice the birds growing silent or the cold towers of clouds moving in,

because you’re explaining how lovely and cool it was in the woods. And the dog had stopped limping! — she seemed

her old self again, sniffing the air and alert, the way dogs are to whatever we can’t see. And I was happy, you hear yourself saying,

because it felt as if I’d been allowed to choose my last day on earth, and this was the one I chose.

[fravery]

Kaoru Yamada

[unplaces]

Black Butte Rd, Corning, California.

[givememtnspls]

Crystal Cove State Park, CA

35mm

[existential-celestial]

Frank Bidart (27 May 1938), in “Guilty of Dust”

[publicdomainreview]

Some essential reading for #InternationalCatDay" — the wonderfully illustrated Nine Lives of a Cat (1860) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-nine-lives-of-a-cat-1860

[random-brushstrokes]

Ulisse Caputo (Italian, 1872 - 1948) - Intimitè

[bottlecap-press]

From Kurtis Ebeling’s chapbook, Private Silences, available from Bottlecap Press! https://bottlecap.press/products/privke

[unplaces]

Rawson Rd, Red Bluff, California.

[fravery]

"Busy Cafe" (oil on canvas) Artist- Paul Cheng.

[lorettakc]

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The hous

[bottlecap-press]

From Allisonn Church’s chapbook, Sunlight Leaking, available from Bottlecap Press! https://bottlecap.press/products/sunlac

[journalofsolitude]

Morgan Harper Nichols’ ‘Let July be July’

[havingapoemwithyou]

I Am So Depressed I Feel Like Jumping in the River Behind My House but Won’t Because I’m Thirty-Eight and Not Eighteen by Sandra Cisneros