hand

a tiny bird 

cold in my hands

night wind

tea

chai tea

an egret passes

between my hands

wait

the long wait

for a raindrop

cracked earth

thoughts

thoughts turn to butterflies seed catalog

nothing

winter river

the everything

the nothing

warning

today

 a lily bloomed

  freeze warning

flotsam

eventide

a shadow searches

the day’s flotsam

minuet

our

minuet

into

the

dark

kitchen

old

black

cat

churchbells

woodsmoke

the sound of churchbells

floating downriver

wind

wind shadows

what moonlight draws

upon my bed

within

a wren’s song

within the wind

new year’s dawn