20150926 (greenland)

A light drizzle blessed Olympia

Today a needed watering if just to

Remind them what had been the

Old normal that made them so 

Different from other parts of the

Land I took Cosette out for walks

Twice nine this morning again 

About noon encountered not a 

Torrent not a gully washer still

That soft lovely moisture casually

Remarked to an intense walker on

Aspinwall who gasped in delight

Her face happily gleaming wet

With rain it's been so long this

Summer the ferns getting brown 

Dry dying it's hard to find 

Stories about the state's weather

Which don't refer to the haze

Of smoke from forests ablaze

Further east landscapers told me

The drought's hurt their business

Don't matter how many contracts

You have if all the grass is brown

Can't really charge for being available

Not part of the deal this afternoon

Cosi and I walked out Aspinwall

Court scanned real estate where

Pines easily eighty feet straight up

Surrounded shaded unique 

Original houses with huge 

Glass areas on the south for

Gathering light warmth 

At the road's reverse a family 

Of black-tailed deer stood 

Statue still quiet unspooked 

Into motion by our presence 

For the three trips I inveterate

Garbage hound retrieved

From the pristine wilderness 

Five cast away aluminum cans 

Three energy drinks in my 

Erstwhile comic career I noted

Such drinks delivered the needed

Energy just not enough to enable 

Recycling not exactly funny I

Learned but not too bad compared 

To my urban sidewalk mining 

Where more often than not I

Netted a grocery bagful of twenty-

Four ounce monsters but hey this

Is greenland the northwest where 

People would recycle their spit

If they could I'm trying to say

None of this primitive vista

Will last long in the new normal 

Forests fill with fire's haze 

Rains diminish to drought

Highways submerge in trash

A damn shame which is

Already begun





c. J.S.Manista, 2015