Flying Squirrels

 

Flying squirrels
have a highly developed
sense of smell
allowing for easier
night foraging
as they harvest
fruits, nuts, fungi, bird eggs

southern flying squirrel/glaucomys volans/petit polatouche: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Lady Liberty

I dream the perfume stand

is crumbling

It is the stand to Lady Liberty

and I see the perfume bottle to Lady Caron

a bottle embossed with our Statue of Liberty

I know we must take a stand

sometimes just being firm with who we are

Sometimes a practice, such as the horse stance or the universal pose/post.

The stand has weathered time well

good quality satin discolored only slightly

leather weathered, the construction still functional, the clasp is in place.

The marketing for Caron's Lady Caron says it is an optimistic fragrance, elegant and uplifting, that Parfums Caron founder Ernest Daltroff's spirits soared as he passed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the gift from France, the home he'd just left to flee Nazi invasion.

Is our stand (personal, familial, community, national, global)

vacant of the Lady Liberty perfume?

but

well constructed, aging well, its clasp in place?

A reminder - we must stand in our selves,

Whether we are moving or making like a tree?

Smelling Rabbits

Happy Chinese New Year, dear ones.

May your creative lives, dreams and productions be prolific!

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photo: Dixi