Being Listless

Being listless makes me want to make lists, to compensate.

things I notice on the way home on Friday:

• an olive tree
• bright cherry-red pants at bus stop
• man selling flowers from his open trunk
• tall scarlet poppies
• clothes hung on the line in late sunlight

things that take my fancy in my present dull mood:

• this lovely outdoor sink and flowered boots
• rose, sweet orange, & geranium bathsalts
• ampersands
• papoutsakia:  Greek eggplant “slippers”
• eggplants = “the garden egg”
• the van de Wetering mysteries, long ago read

So now I’m listing to the left . . .

List, list, O list!  (says Hamlet)

images:  sink, Provence Mon Amour

ampersands, thebestremedi