spring shower

just as the sun comes out  a killdeer’s cry

Spring Mountain (renku)

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

with the wind’s attention  to detail

a mourning cloak’s  black velvet

old silk threads  new caterpillars  of snow

the pond’s island
of ice

a dog in the valley
adds its voice

The feeling that something is about to happen, out here where nothing ever happens…

ice falling from the trees  over here

a stump-water pool
glassy with ice

Visiting Dad’s grave yesterday, I had a strong sense of his absence amid the fundamental indifference of nature.

porcupine napping
on the latrine