the tap on my    
shoulder........................Neither Alice nor Jerry responded     
         
soft fur......................... to our efforts to coax them   
inside.
                 
warm milk........................At    
night they slept
     the sound of water..........in the    
separate nests
              rain...........................we
made for them on a high shelf in the shed --
     
in the early morning light....................lined with second hand down jackets from the    
thriftshop in town.
    
brown grass on the hills...    
a flowered dress..............          
a glass of beer...............    
sleep...............................                         
background noise............                         
the details of cgi scripting    
...............                   
the smell of green grass....                       
warm sun.........................                  
a red front door................                  
cold cereal........................                       
working............................                       
making things....................                         
a white shirt.......................                         
making love......................                       
the children laughing..........                         
blue jeans.........................                         
potato soup......................                         
never know why...............                      footprints..........................                       
unwashed windows...........                       
a dark corner....................                        
the pine trees overhead......                   
walking.............................                         
riding................................                         
the horizon........................