Wind

[vaneramos]

Wind tore siding off the back of the store. When I went to the car, I couldn't see where it had come from, just a few bits lying around the parking lot. Upon my return from the gym, there was more. Investigating, I found it peeling off one side of the addition at the back of the store. Virginia creeper erupted like cancer through the particleboard underneath. I stacked the loose pieces and told Joanne in the store.

Faded leaves skittering across the street always evoke taut carcasses of summer fairies, their magic spent, energy returned to the earth.

I avoided the gym last week on account of my cold. Returning today and stepping on the scale, I discovered four pounds had evaporated. I never noticed any loss of appetite, so what happened? Did it blow away? Maybe it all came out my nose. Three boxes of Kleenex, which decorated the apartment for the past year, have also vanished. The only reasonable cause is all that soup I ate last week. Maybe I can market it as Van's Diet Without Trying.

On the down side, I had no energy, finished most of my routine, but came home feeling washed out.