Collector of Rain

Collector of rain, tea cups, heirloom seeds and roses.Fill the orange Home Depot buckets.My job is a raucous fight where I smile.My home is for salewhere does the wind lead?Son leaves for college in days.Your birthday is on September 11th?Sit while I brew lavender tea.Hummingbirds sip with us,  Siberian Wallflower blooms.Monarchs chrysalis in the canyon.
Caroline Gerardo 9/14/2015

It's raining tonight. After two years of drought the sound of rain in my bucket retention system is a dance. I got my submission in to the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature around 3:30 AM. Wish I had another week for editing, but my  schedule is demanding.  I hope you are well. The photograph is the beginnings of new butterflies in the canyon below my house. I planted milkweed and salvia for the monarchs and there are thousands of them collecting food and doing what makes them happy. Poem above untitled for the moment, perhaps "Welcome Change"