Poetry Tuesday - vol. 2

By way of explaining some of the poetry I am writing lately:

These Days

These days,

long, sun-drenched,

smelling of sunscreen, salt, chlorine, sweat;

These days,

baseball caps, swim shirts,

sand-squishing toes and

cannon-balling clear blue;

These days,

I paint

not in oil or watercolor,

moments forever on canvas.

I paint words,

nouns and verbs and

oh, so many adjectives,

Aching to capture,

to hold,

to preserve forever

these days.