Insta-gram #6: walk on by

Walking back from the market with a bag of vegetables, my mind lost.
A woman, dressed in a straw hat and blue sundress is walking toward me.
She is looking at me.
I ask myself if I recognize her. No, no I don't.
As she approaches she wears a wry smile.
We pass each other by. I feel her pause.
"Ma'am!" I hear from behind.
"Ma'am!" I realize she is calling me.
I turn.
She waves me closer.
Wearing the same smile, she whispers
"Your button is undone."

Insta-gram #5: hello, spring here

A young couple sitting on a stoop,
a small child in a stroller parked in front of them.

Music warbling from an iPhone.
Sipping a Labatt Blue tall boy.

A woman walks by eating apple slices from a plastic bag.
Followed by a hoodied stranger.

Cigarette dangling from his lips
and a ferret squirming in his grip.

Insta-gram #4: morning wake-up

Walked out of my apartment building into the Arctic sunshine;

greeted by a waft of marijuana.

Someone is coping with this frigid morning.

A woman, alone, shouting, walks down the street.

She's talking on her cellphone.