We Sit Quietly and Listen

Me sitting on a folding chair Maria lent us for the initial days In the middle of an empty room Next to a computer on a small folding table Billy, our cat, fearfully inching between the lanai door Looking at the shades of the leaves The breezy bushes and the sun play on the lanai walls We listen attentively to the new pleasant sounds Made by the gentle warm breeze playing with the leaves Occasionally interrupted by the sound of the water birds We are learning to discern these sounds Of the Florida’s little nature around the house It’s the art of discerning, to cut out the disturbing The monotonous humming of the interstate 75 That passes in a hearing distance to our house Nothing is ever perfect, even the nature's sounds Naples, Nov 19, 2014