new coolness
the blueberry bushes
picked clean
Month: October 2012
afterthoughts
the cricket’s voice
in deep leaves
news of your death
when I open my eyes
green leaves
(previously published in the May/ June 2012 Sketchbook, 3rd place in the SSH Summer Kigo contest)
jacarandas
the bee still comes
to the fallen
Friday afternoon
butterfly rests
on the wind
damselfly wings
the slant of the sunlight
between leaves
across his face
the light that slowly moves
across his field
milk moon
the spring stampede
to green pasture
distant thunder
ants inside
a broken egg shell
twilight trees
birds go in and out
of song
(previously published in Acorn #26 — Spring 2011)
steam escaping
from the rice cooker
dreams of travel
drinks on the beach
the jiggle
in a pelican’s throat
dock sunset
the silvery pinks
of loose fish scales
the heavy worm
twisting between my fingers
sunlight on the hook
another sunset
another gnat
swims in the wine
dawn garden
a spotted fawn nibbles
at my resolve
evening sun
helping my dad
tend the cosmos
(For my dear Dad, Frederick Buckingham, 1914-2012)
batting cage nets
catching only
the dawn wind
daydreaming
on an old tire swing
grief gives way
field
out grass
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THROUGH A FILM OF SOOT AND GREASE
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FACTORY WINDOWS
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homesick —
the same ingredients
tasting different
all that remains
of this childhood dream
white-washed bones
and a feathered wing
still flapping in the breeze
we needn’t talk —
the night whispers
tales long forgotten