autumn evening—
the man at animal rescue
has a kind voice
Month: December 2021
total eclipse
a little boy covers
his dog’s eyes
(Originally published on Hedgerow #131)
day’s end
one last thing the dog
needs to sniff
new quarantine
a teakettle
starts to scream
deserted office
a fly circles
the water cooler
drinking fountain
I wait for the wasp
to finish
one person
per cafe table
each left to their own devices
home alone
I change
Siri’s gender
spending time
with an old friend
copper beech
dappled lichen
an empty nest at the end
of quarantine
lockdown lifted
the old man kicks a pebble
down the road
long illness
seeded too late
sweet peas
the day nurse
weighs her every word . . .
cloud shadows
years balancing
on the edge
of words
a son’s silence is
weighing on her
first day of winter
way too much
to tell you
waning moon
day after day
the hints we miss
mountain cranberry
in the sanctuary
of a fallen oak
jack-in-the-pulpit
office mistletoe
in the teeth of
his comb over
carillon
a measure of dawn
strikes the cobbled square
reading scores –
the musician’s hands
take flight
upturned empties
cap every gatepost
farmer’s thrift
moonshine
answering the loon
as a loon