Jericho Beach Mid May

out on the bay
kite surfers, tankers
no smoke haze yet
heat dome
early days

two Canada geese
pose for an Instagram shot
necks extended rod taut

at their feet a gosling

proud parents
they bob their heads
like ageing rock stars

Brendan and Sherry , the creators of the now defunct earthweal have a new website. It’s called Desparate Poets

Check them out!

This Sherry’s challenge:

What makes you feel desperate where you live? What is changing? What is being lost? How is “Progress” making inroads on your landscape, and how do you feel about it? Give us a snapshot. It can be as broad as a seascape, a desert, a teeming city. Or it can be the opposite: finding comfort in the beauty around us, whether it is as vast as the sky or as small as a dew-covered spider-web, on a cornstalk by the back fence in the early morning.