tattered wings
the slow fade
of a monarch’s reign
Month: October 2023
float parade
the Apple Queen’s
flushed cheeks
flies coming back
to his palm wine
the new yam festival
clementines
a ring from the rim
of the crystal bowl
a sack
of windfall apples
Sabbath
prairie restoration
a hundred miles
of lark song
autumn morning
my granddaughter and I
shake out the poppies
no gender
to the tulips
their soft touch
expanding universe
feeling at home
in my own skin
early dusk
the song of a lark
becomes rain
needling the cat
from the pine tree
mockingbird
rusted
and abandoned
summer pine
finding time
on a broken parking meter . . .
the autumn rain
whale-road
a rusted anchor stains
the beach sand
monitoring the dead zone blue crabbers
within the stillness rat’s ripples
( Originally published in Poetry Super Highway, December 2022)
runaway kite
tip of the string
soiled with blood
(Originally published in Heliosparrow)
foster care interview
a fledgling catches
an updraft
seeds blown from her yard
the son no one
talks about
fallen hickory nuts
another home run
off his makeshift bat
dusklight
the wake of a black swan
w i d e n i n g
Victorian showcase
the silence
of songbirds