magic afternoon

I pull the rabbit hole
out of my pocket

end of October

skeletal bushes wearing
the shed skins of trees

mountaintop

the destroying angel’s
frilly scarf

first day of fall

a silent warbler’s blend
of green and yellow

sunlit trail

the Brownian motion
in a cloud of gnats

the mountain

found in a cloud
flowering dogwood

foamflowers

soak in the rushing
waterthrush song

blue-headed

in the sun-flooded forest
vireo

end of winter

wet snow resting
on a bench

spent spikes

of American cancer-root
a zipless fly

damp leaves

left by the winter’s snow
a shed antler

summer dream

dust on my glasses
when i wake