first cold morning

two caterpillars sleeping
in each other’s fur

first heat wave

a black bear’s clawprints 
in the mud

winter’s over

time to shed your coat 
woolly bear

Roundtop

a linked-verse sequence

frog pond

taking the sky 
for a ride

bald eagle

from the ridgetop pines
a long sigh

Spring Mountain (renku)

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

bare ground again

a mourning cloak’s 
black velvet

winter wind

porcupine napping
on the latrine

Coyote Winter

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

written in snow

the epic journey
of a mouse

coyote

whose woods these are
while we sleep