all the pages abandoned
for a green stain
Author: Dave Bonta
I live in an Appalachian hollow in the Juniata watershed of central Pennsylvania, and spend a great deal of time walking in the woods. My books of poetry include FAILED STATE: HAIBUN, ICE MOUNTAIN: AN ELEGY, BREAKDOWN: BANJO POEMS, and ODES TO TOOLS.
Dispatch from the Front
We call them invasive species now, but they didn’t ask to be brought here and planted ‘for wildlife,’ the multiflora roses, Amur honeysuckles, Russian olives, Japanese barberries…
mountaintop
learning the raven’s word
for a human
spring snow
the black dog’s irrepressible tongue
fresh snow in flyover country
nobody’s tracks
lake view
blue paint marking the end
of the clearcut
Christmas bird count
learning every song
of the wind
first snow of the year
using my inside voice
election season
again this cloud of gnats
Raised by Trees
Before my salad days, I was sour as cabbage…
wandering
through the hair on my arm
autumn mosquito
Curl of an ache: six haiku
trail
turning dappled salamander
tail
