Nun

A dime size butterfly. Its underwings showing gray. Before I could dismiss this, I saw the lavender inside open and close.

Birds of Paradise

Two green birds
appear
as they
vanish.
My eyes still look
for the golden goose.

--Superstition Mountains

Unable

to perch on the
hanging Ocotillo
flowers
the bird slid
and slinked away.

--Phoenix Mountains

In the month of humming birds

one guards eggs
in a small nest
Another lies on its side
under a Baha Ruby Fairy Duster bush.

Heterodoxy

sounds so much better than unorthodoxy. Whats with the same new word appearing in any book I open this day? Hetero sounds so much more accomodating.

Dr Who?

I saw a kid feeding herself from Dr Brown's bottle. Then Dr.Scholl came to my mind. It went into my memory stack as another bottle brand until I saw the shoes ad later in the evening.

Enfilade to Diorama

Came across this word in Pork Chop Hill.
The 2b definition of "an axial arrangement of mirrors on opposite sides of a room so as to give an effect of an infinitely long vista" took me back to high school.
In Class IX or so, in a science exhibition my project was Diorama. I was very up about it that I made it from the instructions at the end of a lesson.
I love museums for the miniature models - the modern diorama.

PS: There is a book slide in my life. I have 48 books on history now. War is something I try to stay away from even in reading, but I am trying to convince myself that it will do me good in knowing history.