Program Your Payoffs

Program Your Payoffs

            1.   Spontaneity can take its flight in the midst of structure.

            2.   The beautiful house, that wins your look of awe, could

                  not stand without a firm foundation. Where comes the

                  flower without its root?

            3.   On walks over familiar ground and among the regular, I

                  see sights that surprise and delight, others that that

                  shock and disturb.

            4.   We say variety is the spice of life, but many forays fail to

                  produce true change, but just some same-ol’, same-ol’

            5.   In old or new settings, it’s being anticipatory that can

                  keep us awake in a chair and calm in a storm.

            6.   It is along the way to the payoff that we often find the   

                  payoff.

            7.   On my walks to the heron, sometimes sauntering or with

                  a bounce in my step, I may meet a stranger.

Avenue

They call it an avenue,

just outside our place,

but it’s pretty rough

and lacks for sidewalks

most of its distance

as it makes its way past

modest houses with

gravelly fronts and carports—

just perfect for walks.

There’s a house with

a wall of bougainvillea

that beckons,

blows me kisses

from its thin red lips,

and over there, one

sheltered by a Torrey Pine

of massive trunk and

overhead sweep that

nods in greeting as I

pass beneath it.

The railroad runs

behind the houses

on the west side,

reminding me of

another time

along the tracks

reaching my stature.

Overall, it’s a two-mile

stretch, an occasional

runner, a mom with

buggy and babe, a few

shops, the four-way

cross street, then

the easy stride to the

wetlands lagoon,

and if I’m lucky,

there standing, on one

thin reed of a leg

a treasure in serenity,

that tall white heron.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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