Yellow Rubber Boots

  It was about one in the morning when I turned into the driveway.  My headlights captured her for a few seconds.  As I drove by I had to do a second take.  She was quite disarming.  An attractive dishwater blond in her late twenties dressed in a flower print night gown.  To complete her ensemble she wore yellow rubber boots and gardening gloves. She was pulling weeds from her flower garden almost violently.  It seemed to me each weed represented an unwanted aspect being plucked from her life.

eccentric neighbor

vents anger weeding garden

in late night darkness