Arrival

                         Startled
                         by soft sighs from a night sky -
                         snowbirds

The Hen Party

Laughter
draws my gaze
heavenward.

A gaggle of girls
identical
purple dresses
sunshine blonde.
Posing for photographs on a rooftop.

(How did they even get up there?)

Drinking pink wine at eleven a.m.
One
drunken
stumble
away
from a day they will never forget.

Une hirondelle a fait le printemps...

                         Red, white, and blue of
                         patriotic homecoming -
                         the first barn swallow.



                         On an azure ground,
                         the flicks of an artist's brush -
                         swallows on the wing.



                         Staring at the sky,
                         spots swimming before my eyes -
                         childhood memories.