Author: Bill Cooper

fogbow
turtle eggs near the tideline
scattered and soaked

crescent moon
a foal’s whisker bends
toward milk

subtle shifts
of a swallow-tailed kite
twilight jazz

an orphan
chooses her birthday
first crocus

lottery call expressions at the midnight cafe

tidepool minnows the splosh of a spoonbill

sixty years on
the bulge in a knuckle
grazed by a fastball

rusting in dry dock
a boat named
let it be

the barn owl
shaking his head
debate night

scent of cedar
a yellow-bellied slider
from sun to shade

alpenglow the minnow slips a second paw

Christmas eve wrapping a cold-stunned turtle in seaweed

wild aster
why am i so easily
amused

unweathered slats
in the old dune fence
plover trills

dock sunset
the silvery pinks
of loose fish scales