sounds

summer trees

a woodpecker sounds

the dead one

sand

a

grain

of

sand

the

taste

of

desert

wind

take

all the rain

a day can take

sand dune

yawn

pouring wine

the cat yawns

in my lap

upon

engorged with sun raindrops fall upon me

remains

nesting season

all that remains

after the crows

catch

two herons

in the shallows

the day’s catch

waterwheel

waterwheel

a crescendo 

in raindrops

balloon

a child’s birthday

tangled in cattails

the pink balloon

youth

just down the road

the fountain of youth

growing old

river

sunday river among jet skis a red canoe

tune

marine patrol

the river changes

tune

greenway

greenway

moonlight floats down

a heron’s path

flow

wavelets the ebb and flow of children

inequality

inequality

a dandelion

from the dust

nobody

june first

the woods accept me

as nobody

calm

the mermaid

i would have been

calm waters 

life

between a rock

and a hard place

a snail’s life

still

in the woods

as still as the doe

i become

orange

orange seedling

will i live to breathe

your blossoms

hero

a handbell sounds

the name of each hero

memorial day

window

raindrops on water

i close my window

to the frogs

bullfrog

sunset falls below a cloud bank the bullfrog

shallows

fingerling

an egret stalks

the shallows

gravity

tadpole

the

gravity

of

drought

lights

headlights

a river of stars

between us

party

‪party of crows the sound of my arrival‬

‪

isolation

isolation

i open the door

to the wind

unearth

in a sunny spot

the squirrel unearths

my row of seedlings

pain

‪even moonlight‬

‪can’t mask the pain‬

‪devil’s walking stick‬