With Our Families

while swimming at the pond all day
the three other men left
for a drink at a nearby bar

I would have said "no thank you"
but I still would've liked
to have been asked

One Difference

girl swimming in Sand Pond:
I don't want to get out here
I don't want to hurt the tadpoles

boys with buckets and nets

/ / /

Another small stone from our holiday weekend.

Compassion and Grammar (small stone)

saw two Cattlemens restaurants
on our drive to our vacation spot
just two problems with that
one I'm vegan
two it needs an apostrophe

/ / /

Another small stone from our drive to get away for the long holiday weekend.

Fourth of July Weekend (small stone)

going thirty miles per hour on I-80
watching the shadow
of the seagull
change lanes ahead of me

/ / /

This poem is my first posting of a small stone as part of a river of stones.

I've been away for the long holiday weekend, and was busy in the days before that preparing food for me to eat over those days away from home. It's one of the prices I have to pay being vegan in a non-vegan world.

I hope to try to catch up, but there are some prompts that I just may not get to. I already have two prompts from We Write Poems and The Sunday Whirl that I hope to get to, but I make no promises.