two caterpillars sleeping
in each other’s fur
Category: critters
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