Real Life Books and Media
Variety
Yellow bananas, ripe tomatoes, crunch granola, cream soup with avocado slices,
Rarity
Artichokes pressured into giving up leaves, dip in mayonnaise, and scrape with teeth.
Fun
Green curly leaves of Romaine, black olives one for each child thumb and finger.
Delightful
Dark chocolate truffle-fragment melting. Close eyes to get full effect.
Flashes
Small, shiny pinwheels
Catching and tossing sunshine.
Music
Poignant violin brings melancholy peace.
I know where you are, my love.
Gone
Pink-tinged, white azaleas filled the giant bush
Then wilted and fell, one by one.
Don’t worry, lavender plumbago in the wings.
Spring Herbs
Beginning to peek over the tops of their boxes.
Tiny yellow flowers of tarragon.
Will we eat them?
Threatened
Blue and gray scrub jays with tough-guy voices
Discuss survival around the rim of the bird bath.
