amber light from inside when you’re outside black bean leavings in a pan an umbrella filling up with rain a sand dollar with plastic beads draped over it beach gnats whorls of driftwood suggesting lurid faces cup of tiny shells bric a brac on the beach charcoal math problems on twilit pavement children’s handprints in cool concrete cobalt splattered warm brick compost in the shade concrete koi new sprouts little mountains of grass couple of horses munching in the sun cranes getting the fuck out of here evening settling over the lake explosion of oak leaves firecrackers on the fifth of july fish spit and lily pads hot fresh asphalt iron, asphalt and a tiny jungle ivy climbing up the window of your favorite tea house a young girl reading and drinking tea mississippi river bridge graffiti moon over your neighbor’s window old shoes in the basement antique books cultured pearls reflected in rusty water a proud dude with his chest out rain clouds over a rural cemetary rain water in a tire swing random scenery from a train window slightly open window downtown snail crawling across glass sparkles in the sky spider web in a fog sunlight filtering through lake water sunset at the duck pond a tattered green curtain spotlight of sunbeams on a secret copse thunderstorm rolling over the train tracks raspberries basking on 113-year-old concrete red-tailed hawk pausing to think reflection of a stone girl and her two boys rusty swingset chains in the sun