It's Here! It's Here!

Cocooned in metal and plastic,

I ride to work in a vaguely somnambulistic haze.

The sounds of cars hum and beep around me.

The engines don't roar anymore;

they purr and whirr, almost silent.

It's their tires I hear, sticking and 

unsticking on the pavement.

In the gray haze, I see the colors of the lights 

denoting the corners on shapes,

others signaling the red, green, and yellow

of the intersections.

And yet -- and yet, I hear spring,

sneaking through the industrialized 

sound barrier -- robins chirping and singing

their own joy at the coming of another day.

P.S. A few days ago, I posted

some pictures from my visit to Nada,

a new restaurant in downtown Indy.

They liked the pictures and comments,

so treated me to dessert the other

night. Ahhh. I felt so spoiled.