Nurture your Nature

Winter-walk from Myrtle to the Rose Garden

A fragrance of the 70s as a man passes near the brewery. 3 splats of vomit on the sidewalk on the way to the uncontrolled 4 way on Wolford. Puddling along the frozen edges of the walk, snirt melting slowly under a weak sun that lights the skies, but hides behind the clouds and then the mountain. Salt. Black shriveled berries, orange berries of the rowan. A guy practicing with his skateboard on front porch steps. In the Rose Garden: pine cones, rabbit pellets, no snow under the pines; two dogs. Pistachio and Bacio gelato at Caffe Dolce, smooth, nutty and sweet on the tongue, eaten with a small blue plastic spoon.

No birds in flight; none seen nor heard.

2009, February 2nd from Myrtle Street to the Rose Garden on Brooks, Missoula, Montana.

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