home

coming home

in my own footsteps

morning dew

forget

even when

i forget the words

river music

sunny side

picket fence

i bury my cat

on the sunny side

moonlit

it ends

with a ladybug

moonlit poem

gone

all the quiet

gone from the pond

first bullfrog

almost

on the edge

of almost too far

crushed chili pepper

silver

full of dawn

a mockingbird sings

the river silver

quiver

close enough

to feel you quiver

bumblebee

hear

who's there to hear

the old pine fall

robins at dawn

nevertheless

these old bones

spring comes softly

nevertheless

after

mountain home

the scent of leaving

long after

return

waking to

the mourning of doves

winter returns

overcome

throbbing

spring has overcome

with blossoms

softly

mountains -

quietly growing

softer

sound

last

year's

leaves

the

sound

of

every

step

ladybug

everywhere

i've ever wandered

ladybug morning

end

where river song ends duck feathers in the rocks

whisperings

even faraway

your whisperings

creek at dawn

somewhere

somewhere

i've misplaced your name

evening songbird

mountains

spring garden i come home smelling of mountains

wondering

digging a grave

wondering when to plant

which wildflowers

yield

blustery day

everything yields

but the sky

between

between sunrise

and my bed

an owl flies home

endings

endings

written on the sky

in vultures

nothing

mountains of trees

here i can be

nothing

notes

the rainbow notes

of a raven's voice

maples budding

sun

as day goes

so goes the old cat

sun shadows

fallen

fallen tree

the path you offer

across the creek

wasp

snow becomes

a wasp on a flower 

winter day

disagreeable

the rain, too

seems disagreeable 

not quite spring

every

mountaintop

me, the wind

and every star