tuesday

day lillies everywhere

red pawpaw, summertime breakfast

green tea

school goes back today 

grey heron

floats ahead of us

down the driveway

bus stop, 8.15 a.m.  

car door clunk

bye!

he’s off into the big wide world

with his hoodie and his backpack

spring morning by the laundry door

- a hundred floating white star flowers 

tissue shredded in the washing machine

 - a hundred white specks 

on black shirt

Three loads of washing, a good drying day.

work

bills paid

- incoming tide of paper,

pushed back

for now

phone chat with Jenny

she says “ I don’t know how you do it”

I say “I’ve been a neurotic mess”

We laugh

roof creaks in the midday heat

parsley’s gone to seed

after school

his saxophone lesson

while I cook green curry

and listen...

teacher says

“the best way to thank me is to practise”

daylight saving 

dinner outside

in late afternoon light

three of us,

the family 

dishes washed

to Hilltop Hoods, Lonely Island

fierce kid music

(‘don’t listen to the rude bit mum’) 

putting out compost

by moonlight

-scent of lemon blossom