Take Note on Ordinary Days

Take note

Of ordinary days

Undone hair

And a hat

Good enough

For walking

Outside

Lavender blossoms

Waiting

For more green

To arrive

Windy-ish

Cold enough

For a coat

Baby

Cheerios

Right hip

Pinching

Booked a massage

In a month

…

Asked Alexa

For my to do list

It’s 12 lines long

I said

“Alexa, stop reading to do list”

Packed baby into the carriage

Went for a walk

on the path

I walk

She notices

More than I

My nose

Is in my phone

Multitasking

Emails

And my to do list

But I look up

Enough

To see

Lavender purple

And as much

As I think

Today is an ordinary day

And I slipped by unnoticed

I stop to remark

The brilliance

Of God’s purple

On the side of the Potomac

Transported to lavender fields

In France

Buzzing bees

Rows

Of color.

Is this ordinary?

A color to make you pause

To lift your busy nose

From the phone

And stop the carriage

And time travel

Without a passport

Standing on the side of the Potomac

And I don’t even like purple.