winter’s over

time to shed your coat  woolly bear

Roundtop

a linked-verse sequence

taking the sky  for a ride

from the ridgetop pines
a long sigh

spring mountain snowdrifts rotting in the sun old coyote scat mouse bones in mouse fur petrichor the dry skin of … More

a mourning cloak’s  black velvet

porcupine napping
on the latrine

When I stand up, I see the large coyote that’s been watching me—who knows for how long—from 50 feet away.

the epic journey
of a mouse

whose woods these are
while we sleep

on the side of the road
ready for winter

the unyielding bones
of its cage