picnic for one

in the autumn forest
white hair aglow
a wild lettuce seed
drifts past

toadstools

let me put on
my rain hat

first cold morning

two caterpillars sleeping
in each other’s fur

where the oak

split off from its lost half open mouthed

Fog walker

fog walker 
the millipede’s carpet 
of legs

hot hike

wearing my halo 
of poison

lost dog (linked verses)

lost dog 
enchanter’s nightshade burs 
in its ears

hot tub

laid bare in the woods a junkie’s pale face​

sunset gold

under umbrellas a buzzing phone​

ghost pipes

sweating through the longest day of the year​

first heat wave

a black bear’s clawprints 
in the mud

Jumpseed leaf (linked verse sequence)

vireo holding forth
on a verse from vireo