Picture In My Mind

Picture In My Mind

Sweetly perfumed spring days
wrapped in sun shiny splendor.
smiles that squeeze eyeballs

until they twinkle.
Children half floating, tethered to balloons

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo, and Violet
highlighted by the clear Blue sky.
Bikini clad bodies

dotting the grassy green landscape.
Glistening, Crying out for
the attention of the Sun Gods.
Couples, young and old laughing infectiously;
sharing love flavored iced cream.
Random people bouncing as they stride
non-deliberately
as if they were going nowhere.
None of them together but all of them in unison
enjoying the miracle that is life.
If I were to return here

on any day, in any year
I would expect to see the same people
with the same care free expressions.
Sauntering; the disconnected from time, saunter.
Doing the same things they are doing today.
Or at least, that’s how I will picture it
in my mind.


Norman E.Harris, Jr.