New Growth

The Fiddle Leaf Ficus growing at our front door,

the one putting out new leaves that I noticed

just last Saturday and took pictures… Why not,

I thought, follow their growth to fully filled out

leaves ready to do what leaves are meant to do…

It's a little like watching hummingbird chicks grow...

so that’s what I’m doing today… and celebrating

birth and life and growth and green and everything

instead of thinking too much about the man

in the airplane who apparently killed himself

and snuffed out the lives of a hundred forty nine

people who only wanted to get somewhere.

I felt like shit after hearing it so I went right out

and took some pictures of the fiddle leaf ficus

and decided to focus on life instead of death.