Spring Mountain (renku)

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

winter’s end

tentacles of ice
beside the spring

day owl

the pond’s island
of ice

Bell’s Gap

Strolling down the Allegheny Front on an old rail bed. A haibun.

aerial bombardment

ice falling from the trees 
over here

moonlight

on my bed
winter dreams​

melting through

the heritage
of snow fleas

creaking limbs

shrink-wrapped in ice
my evergreen

February thaw

blood on the road resuming
its slow journey

back among familiar trees

my shadow
stretches out

The idea of a Primal

Some thoughts toward a rite of spring.

Brush Mountain

the upward mobility
of water