Walk with a friend moving to the Philippines

We speak of quiet’s gift:
Clues revealed for life’s next step.
Where? What? When? Known within.

Post-dinner heart-to-heart

Plans with friends, date night
collide. Your feelings, my words.
Fights and laughs: all good.

Dinner with parents:
Fennel, kale, sausage, white beans.
Chat into the night.

Random Tuesday off,
Puttering from plants to art.
Freelance ebb and flows.

High school friend; China
roommate. Shared meals with partners,
ghosts of former selves.

Meat folder, dumplings,
gain lan, with pork ear to start.
Ninety percent full.

Lacy verdant shafts
ascend: a hundred year’s growth
filters morning sun.

Best friend on speaker.
Beach, river, leaf peeping, water sports,
hikes. Let’s do it all.

Candy colored homes.
Families walking, children playing,
dappled sun; all’s right.

Small jungle in room.
Tall and short; gifts; plant babies.
Girl, indulge yourself.