wilderness peak

checking my phone
for a signal

autumn pond

a bottomless blue
six inches deep

Mountain stream: haiku or tanka?

mountain stream talking to myself

pine scent

of a pine
discarded needles

mountaintop hemlocks

the last katydid’s
creaky love song

cable footbridge

the autumn river’s
unhurried flow

first fire

all the light that won’t
shine again

old birch

the wild gestures of one
living alone

saying hello

to a moss-covered log
heron wingbeats

slow fall

the standing dead
turn blue

death in autumn

that inevitable cliché // the deplorable rightness of nature

Old Man of the Woods

returning to the grove
he planted