Back Porch
In this place of breezes
and naps, the spot where
birds begin, nothing can be
wrong, not when power
scampers harmlessly
through the line
and the cardinal
sharps out his message
about finding food,
protecting children.
His song pervades
everything; all the
leaves turn over
once, twice,
as our beach towels
flap where we draped
them, out here where
the phone doesn’t ring.
Marilyn Rauch Cavicchia 
woohoo…here is to being where the phone does not ring and you can just enjoy that song and natures touch…smiles….it is where i would rather be…
Thanks! It is nice to have a little respite.
A boardwalk away – songs from the beach although we don’t see Cardinals there – frigates, gulls, sandpipers, and grackels strutting in and out of the roosts where pelicans watch and herons fish. This is a lovely summertime piece.
I like all of those, too! Where we are, they used to use border collies to scare away the gulls. I haven’t seen the trained dogs this year, though — maybe the gulls won.
This is a wonderful and enticing portrait. I want to be in that place you describe.
Thank you! It is an unassuming condo porch, but we have a lot of trees around us, and I love that we’ve been going to the beach more often this summer. Often on Tuesdays, so I come home with a beachy poem for Open Link Night!
Ah, you make me pine for the beach. Definitely with no phones. 🙂
And I live a few blocks from a beach, and pine for a Ramos gin fizz. 🙂
“His song pervades
everything; all the
leaves turn over
once, twice,”…i so loved this.
Thank you, Mohana!
having just gotten back from a beach trip where my phone didn’t work, i can totally identify with the sense of peace and serenity that pervades this. ah, i want to go back!
I want to be there! Nice.
Truly a magical place. I could use a place of my own like this.
Wonderfully captured! Thank you for sharing.
“Breezes and naps” — even if it does come with a cardinal that “sharps” into the drowsy lull, it sounds just right.
Thanks, complynn! Its song seemed to warrant a verbing, which I don’t do often. 🙂
Lovely..I would like to be where the phone does not ring 🙂
whoosh…very, very nice – clean reading, not a word, it seems, out of place or ruffled. Good stuff.