Happy Thanksgiving

Poetry and gratitude

Local Geometry

One delight of my neighborhood is
that it is filled with triangles.

The triangles appear around dawn
and wander until late evening 
pausing briefly on their route.

These right triangles are formed with
a compliant human, a noncompliant pet, and the sidewalk.
The opposite side from the right angle is called the “hypotenuse”
but usually just shortened to “leash”.

—hritz


in the last minutes of daylight
Jupiter filled the sky
with bright bands of pink and purple
—hritz


Matinee idol

Needing two hands
To manage his small charge
A playful dad
Wears the hood
Of a tiny winter coat
On his head
Like a silent film sheik
—hritz