september in the prairie
Posted: August 31, 2015 Filed under: Chicago, cycling, travel | Tags: cycling, Naperville, prairie, Springbrook Park 11 CommentsWhen I moved from Ohio, I missed the trees and hills. Yet, I’ve grown to find the prairie pure, abundant and ever changing. This section of Springbrook park was burned completely down last fall, once the lightning storms and the Indians renewed the prairie this way. In one spring and summer the prairie returns verdant and full of life.
renewed and full of life
As we cycle this path, every day its newness is a gift.
oblivious — poem
Posted: July 4, 2012 Filed under: cycling, poetry, sport | Tags: cycling, dragonfly, heat, Iphone, love, Springbrook Park 5 CommentsThe 4th in Chicago, over 100 degrees. When I ride to the prairie park it always astounds me how much cooler it is to be off of the highway. As I cycle, I see one thousand miracles and smile secretly at a young couple and their Iphone. How strange are they young, or maybe, how strange am I.
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