OUT FOR AN AFTERNOON WALK

Sun – glistening – glazed light,
like a covering of wax
on every inch of the neighborhood sidewalks….
Kids on bikes – skateboarders jumping off steps –
a well kept house with a grandmother,
with a little baby on a porch –
with an easy smile,
with an easy wave,
with leaves waving as well,
hanging there before their fall,
also enjoying a moderate moving October wind,
a thin – tall – fast darting U.P.S.
guy running up some steep steps,
he too giving me a smile and soundless “Hi!”….
Afternoon walks no way as demanding
as our backpacking trips in the Rockies
but yet,
these mini-vacations
are as necessary to my daily soul.

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2009