Month: January 2018

codependent
a flaw
deep in the diamond

 

February rain . . .
yet still the sparrows playing
beneath a parked car

 

 

the soft knocking
of my pulse
on his pillow . . .
valentine’s eve

 

 

moonrise
a bullfrog
greets the dog star

stillness
the kayak
breaks
the river’s
glassy skin

one cast
after another
measuring the brook

 

sunset fishing the flood tide catching the light

 

solar eclipse
I fill my wheelbarrow
with sunflowers

autumn equinox
the truck driver clicks his tongue
at a passing dray

 

 

 

(1st Prize, The Martin Lucas Award, 2016)

twining the tendrils
of peas through the trellis
the sweep of the sun

 

high-plains hut
the swirl
of the milky way

 

our small fire
through a hole in the clouds
the only star

 

 

the high meadow
a cicada’s whine
sharpens into silence