midwinter night
light from the snow
the stars
Month: February 2011
Black Dog
“You know”, he confided, “I want to walk in front of a truck. My little girls would be much better off. I am the reject of the family. My wife tells
a last rocket…
lights twinkle
into the New Year
snow flurry on an empty street the traffic light turns red
Faster and Faster
20,000 years on average from the Sun’s core to its surface.
About 8 minutes and 18 seconds from the Sun to Moon.
One more second from the Moon to Earth.
crisp night
sculpture garden—
new snow
on her marble breasts
late afternoon—
a glimpse of sunlight
through her hair
low tide
the silent contractions
of a jellyfish
empty nest
empty nest
still
the bird sings
For Two Horses By the Fence at VCCA
They stand there, side-by-side, seemingly unmoving, gazing off toward the mountains. Now and then the darker one slowly turns his head to look at me, one brown eye
midnight fog
the street light
a silver dandelion
The fountain’s too lucid
moon—just inches above
a litter of leaves.
snowmelt…
a woodpecker thrums
into thin sun
white phlox blossoms daring the frost
night sky
the rusted tin roof
leaking moonlight
walking back
the way we came
shadows shift
stuttering light
the sound of tea
being poured
a sliver of moon
she asks if he really
exists