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?

Roundtop

a linked-verse sequence

Spring Rain

a linked-verse sequence

March wind

A linked-verse sequence.

mountaintop pool

trees reassembling
after each breeze

spring equinox

the sound of a bat
taking a drink

frog pond

taking the sky 
for a ride

Spring Mountain (renku)

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

day owl

the pond’s island
of ice

Winter Forest

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

creaking limbs

shrink-wrapped in ice
my evergreen