picture perfect day
glossing over
the road kill
Month: January 2022
graffiti wall
a passing dog
leaves his mark
wharf bird commotion
a sea lion
rolls over
in the narrative of rain blackbird song
my easel stands
neglected in the corner
still flecked
with bright colors of a world
I no longer recognize
(haiga)
wild berries
gathering
what the birds missed
sun through
the suet cage
deep winter
snow saucer
my daughter and I
spin through winter
short day—
the smell of wet mittens
drying by the fire
prairie sky
just big enough
to hold the stars
Painted Desert
the colors of sunset
all day
drought
so many smooth stones
in the creek bed
blazing sun
my wife watering
the kids
solemn nods
of pampas grass–
late summer
craft store
a regiment of plastic buddhas
in the garden aisle
koi pond
the things I have yet
to outgrow
on a field trip
all their craning necks—
turtles on a log
dragonfly between raindrops dragonfly
woodland undertones fiddlehead ferns
I say one thing
but you hear another
hummingbird moth
reminding me
of life’s taste –
hummingbird