Christmas bird count

learning every song
of the wind

river road

passed by a floating tire

water striders

going against the flow to stay still

clearing wind

I’ve managed to escape my flies

first heat wave

a black bear’s clawprints 
in the mud

Sacrificial

Why is it this year that the familiar warbler songs sound like dripping blood or fabric being torn?

spring creek

the waterthrush dancing 
by its side

early gnats

in my ears a trout’s splash​

Roundtop

a linked-verse sequence

Spring Rain

a linked-verse sequence

March wind

A linked-verse sequence.

mountaintop pool

trees reassembling
after each breeze