Worms

I was cleaning up my back porch.  I had placed an old thick mat/carpet before my comfy outdoor chair.

I picked up the mat, and under it on the asphalt, were dozens of worms.  Their presence surprised and amazed me.  I figured they were eating the thick damp mat.  

I returned a few hours later, after a mild rain, to find that all the worms had gathered together in a ball.  We gently scooped them up and placed the worms in our vegetable garden.  

The worms crawl out,
The worms crawl in;
Working, ready to begin.
Gathering Together 
A Ball of Worms
Struggling to Survive
Not wanting to die
Wanting to Live, to flourish,
to survive.

Worms - Information

Does Light Make No Sound?

 

Light Makes No Sounds?
By Michael P. Garofalo, 9/30/2020

Mano y Mano, Face to Face, a Fight
The Gunfight, Two Dudes, in Spokane (one dead, one critically injured)[i]
A fistfight in the Bandini barrio de ELA, City of Commerce
Two girls fighting at a Middle School in Corning …
Quick, Exhausting, Brutal, Injurious

Two US Presidential candidates debating on TV in 2020. Refereed. 
Roberto Duran fist to fist against Sugar Ray Leonard
at the Brawl at Montreal in 1980.  Refereed.
Lakers vs Celtics, 1985 or 2010, Los Angeles. Refereed.  

OR
“No mas.”  And/Or  "No quiero pelear con el payaso"
("I do not want to fight with this clown.”); and,

back to the more immediate and important daily realities of people
getting along peacefully with one another, and me.[ii]
Quieter, calmer, restful, safer, friendly, peaceful.

Memories can make bad sounds or not. 
Many dreams, I suppose, are so silent, I can’t remember them. 

Light makes no Sounds?

Too much light can make us cry or scream in pain.
No light is scary and dangerous.
Lights Out, We Are Closing, Day is Over, Closed, Someone Dies.  

Sunset is Silent, aside from the takeoff roar of jets overhead,
heading northwest from Portland’s PDX.

Daybreak is Silent, aside from the chatter of birds in the garden,
or the drone rumble of autos and trucks on Interstate 205 nearby.

The Summit of Baden-Powell is bathed in 1979 light;
I’m warm and tired from the climb,
falling asleep in the silence of the light. 

Things are all wrapped up, interconnected, intertwined, in love.  

But, it maybe true, nevertheless, that light makes no sounds. 

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[i] Right-wing white supremacist gunman killing 32 at a Fort Worth Texas Mall.
65,000 or more dead US soldiers from Vietnam War, millions of others
60 Million Blasted to Bits in World War II
Possibilities of annihilation in thermo-nuclear war

 

[ii] I now (2020) walk in our 50 year old Vancouver Orchards suburb,
with many beautiful homes and landscaping,
with many big trees in this Evergreen State of WA.
A rich old man, rich in peaceful and beautiful memories,
lucky, unique, with a managerial/administrative talent,
helping hundreds of thousands of readers and viewers,
a book and media distributor,
and, hopefully, an educator as well as a librarian.