dancing flames

a ruby-throated hummingbird here and gone​

dancing flames

a ruby-throated hummingbird here and gone​

Roundtop

a linked-verse sequence

Spring Rain

a linked-verse sequence

March wind

A linked-verse sequence.

Question mark

In a distant field, a white house glows like a sail in the late-March sun.

winter’s end

a fox sparrow serenades
the bare dirt

Bell’s Gap

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

melting through

the heritage
of snow fleas

unseasonably warm

a woodpecker’s
urgent knocks

returning

to the mountain
its hiking stick

Missing mountaintop

From time to time a flash of panic, as if I’ve forgotten something — but I can’t think what.

missing mountaintop
in the pit
of my stomach