‘Likes”

Norma Tucker 

 

 

 

Sam posted a photo on that October day 

just warm enough and cool enough

to turn off the night’s heating and take a walk 

to soak the sunshine into our pores 

to hear the crunch of fallen leaves

step by step under the bluest of skies 

not a cloud in sight.

 

I took a photo of the azure sky 

above the tree tops

 bearing leaves

 in autumn’s rich hues

 orange, red, yellow.

 

Across the river

Sam, too, looked upward

snapped a photo

displayed contrast 

that same blue sky and a leafless tree

with large heavy gray boughs

creating a crook wherein nestled

what I thought a squirrel, gray.

 

Two immediate “likes” 

one focused on the munching squirrel

calling it a tree rat

while I “liked”

the “bluest of blue skies.”

 

There is something more herein 

 Putting these words together

 the likes of three  

on both sides of the river 

that day.

  

 

(10/27/22)