February 29

Like the extra hour
when we fall ahead, this one
day a trick in time.

Leap year

February’s haste
to usher in an early
March slowed by one day.

Lunar eclipse

Luminous  suitor,
the moon dimmed by darkness’s
seductive regard.

Chenay Bay – Fifth day

Through the rainforest.
Lunch at Rhythms Rainbow Beach,
then Carambola.

Chenay Bay – Fourth day, Christmas Day

Green Cay Marina
walk. J gets stung, M watches
A Christmas Story.

Reggae breakfast

We eat cereal
on the porch by the sea, while
island music plays.

Caribbean morning

Intense turquoise, the
water is a wake-up call
to swim, sun, sail, dream.

Because they can

No greater self-love
than a dog licking itself
with satisfaction.

Oh Christmas tree

We bring it home, put
it on life support so we
can hang ornaments.

Christmas tree lot

Sad orphans ripped from
the forest stretch out their limbs
pleading, ‘Take *me* home.”