zucca * pumpkin

Today I learned “zucca” is Italian for pumpkin.

Birds I’ve seen lately in southern California ~wild green parrots (today), hummingbirds (all the time, a joy), & a chicken-hawk (I think).

As light runs along the length of power lines / you glimpse, in the garden . . .
Ginkgo Light, Arthur Sze

Desert wind blowing: how the city suddenly turns . . . Yosefa Raz

I cut out / irises from your clouds and pin them / to sleep beside the ibis tablecloth ~ Arlene Ang

Inside the dark flower moonlight runs / endlessly. Violet moonlight ~ Lynn Xu

To live is so startling ~ Emily Dickinson