Observation
I can hear the wet-clinging strokes of the paint roller.
The back and forth, the up down; I can hear the spreading of
the new white, covering the old white, yellowed with age.
She is painting the bedroom, while I listen to news, and
write, and prepare for work.
My cat is watching the city from atop the couch; in the
picture window.
Sunlight brushes the lilies in the boulevard.
A cool wind is blowing through the peonies, the dark green leaves
are just bushes now; having dropped the soft petals, from their pendulous flowers.
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.