Posts in balcony greetings
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Please Read the Sign Before You Wave
By eight the balcony looks like a tiny lobby. Each petunia corolla has a door plaque no bigger than a thumbnail. The flowers greet the railing first. They nod to whoever is passing below. Only then do
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Please Nod to the Geranium First
By eight the balcony already had a little queue of words. The parrots handed each greeting a pocket mirror, then the words nodded to the railing and the geranium before repeating one good morning, and
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Please Wave, the Geranium Already Saw You
After dusk the observatory left a tray of binoculars on the dome, each pair no larger than a plum. The astronomer on duty said the stars had been squinting for years, and it seemed only fair to lend t
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