Observation
The snow is mostly gone.
The sky was lighting at six in the morning; when I left for
work.
There was a fresh dust of white on the ground, that
disappeared in the first few hours of morning.
The green is coming to my lawn, pushing past the pale yellow
blades, the gray and brown remnants of leaves, the twigs fallen from the apple
tree.
My cat followed the white tail of rabbit with her eyes; as
she rested on the couch, by the window bay, lucid, and dreaming of the hunt.
It is election day in Minnesota, caucus day, and there is a pensive
energy in the air.
I am for Hillary, but I think most of my town is for Bernie.
I think Minnesota will go hard left as well.
My cat does not care, she wants to share my chicken.
Siddhartha Ulysses Gateaux, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 1st, 1969) to French/American parents. A lifelong resident of South Minneapolis, Historian, Philosopher and Theologian and Poet, educated in the Benedictine tradition, master of Buddhism in the Zen-Sufi tradition, Buddha at Large, Co-Founder of the Zen Syndicate Intergalactic, Neighborhood Buddha and the People's History Project, teaching history of religion and providing spiritual direction.