I Open My Eyes

Through kitchen windows
Sunshine lands on the table
Glistening grapefruit.

Outside, tree limbs shake;
Inside, there is just stillness.
Two parallel worlds.


Parked against the barn
Ancient wooden wheelbarrow.
What year are we in?


Little peaks of ice
Rise from the rushing water:
Castles on the stream.


Empty wooden bench
Faces the snow covered lawn.
Sound of woodpecker.

Loud hollow rattling--
Woodpecker hammers away;
Unlucky insects.


Pieces are falling
From sedimentary rock;
Has taken eons.

As my thoughts wander
World becomes invisible.
I open my eyes.