anthropomorphizing

sun scurrying south for the winter

inches per morning

along my eastern horizon

cold season is milder here

on the Pacific coast than i remember

growing up in America’s Midwest

when at times the snowdrifts

were far taller than i was

so i question Sol’s need to bask

in the tropics

but Science exhorts that i am

anthropomorphizing

that the sun is not a ‘he’ making

choices but a physical mass following

laws of physics resulting from its limp

or wobble left over from collision

with sister planet Theia

i guess even planet siblings

do not always play nice

awesome chandelier

 wondering why i didn’t buy

the Venetian glass chandelier

that so gave me awe and raw desire

first, with failing ears,

i did not hear the offer to include

my long-stemmed glasses free

second, i could not get three

life-long concern always to treat

my three kids as close to equally

as humanly possible, how could i

have only one such treasure

in my home that might cause hurt

between them? their love for each other

is more valuable to me than all

the ‘boughten’ things I could

ever purchase