The front door
wide open
a shooting star
Month: January 2023
more war news
the slow bleed
of hibiscus tea
(Originally published in Mariposa #34, Spring 2016).
headstone inscription
the vocabulary
beyond her years
drowning out
the war news —
spring peepers
cultural evolution
the shifting patterns
of whale song
Sunday morning by the sea
how reverently
we eat ice cream
beach volleyball the moon in play
distant laughter . . .
lights
of an anchored ship
a hot date
the gentle creaking
of moored boats
(Originally published in Frogpond vol. 43:3 (fall) 2020).
true blue the bower bird’s allure
winter camping
the dark matter
that hums to us
breakup talk —
our breath mingling
in the winter air
fern spores
the ellipsis after
your goodbye
(haiga)
new moon
a higher standard
of solitude
(Originally published in Frogpond 44:3 Autumn 2021).
launch called
between clouds
glimpses of the moon
all the time in the world aspen grove
Milky Way
the cigarette shorter
than the ash
hanging over us
an icicle
the length of March
spring burial
light around the edges
of the clouds
telescope images
the birth of stars
already gone