Category: Issue 25.2

unless
it is too late
summer…

the surprise
of late love…

garden wealth
we force zucchini…

windfall apples
all the …

you and me
a log
that won’t…

after the fire
ponderosa…

a different cool
than the…

sleepless
above this heat…

starlit pond…
a paper…

night swamp
all that
jazz…

quiet pond
the dash-dot …

ripples upon ripples
water…

lily pad
a dragonfly’s…

night rain
the crickets …

Back from vacation—…

half-open roses
the soloist’s…

wind-dried beach cobbles…

thunderhead—
the crack…

village well
the clink-clank…

making do
wild ducks dabble…

high surf
before the hurricane…

cold night
on the dunes
a …

asteroid belt
a good enough…

saving daylight
the translucent…

smile lines
an old farmer’s…

every day
more like a crone…

last time through
the corn…

lingering spirits
Halloween…

contrails our slow disintegration…

political coup
the sand …

broken window—
seeing the…

broken walls
a blackbird’s…

following a cricket
into…

playground
within
the
rolling…

childhood friend …
we fill…

airplane crossing the sky…

detainment cell
another…

cold drizzle
when did it …

slow-moving clouds
a painted…

swaying grasses
the wordless…

long day
the toddler’s…

older
the same stars
my parents…

another road trip in me autumn…

a bubbly effervescence…

steel sky
the sudden splash…

lights of a farm
letting …

biophony
all the ways
to …

skimming the pages
of a new…

quail call
the blind setter…

brooding
over my dog’s…

only child
without a child…

day of surgery
this sudden…

retirement . . .
Monday slips…

another morning
with dust…

long workday . . .
I sit in …

in spite of all my failures…

winter light
saguaros hold…

crescent moon
a foal’s…

jacaranda rain
a petal rides…

sunrise
sediment settles…

i think of moths, but
    i mostly

…

family reunion
the grandfather…

dazed elegance
at the reunion…

Hubble Telescope
a closer…

first Christmas
instructions…

colder nights . . .
the muezzin’s…

the year's coldest night

…

corner pub
as much location…

shucking oysters
the talk…

new year’s day
turning over…

outside
my morning window…

sap rise
the long gleam
of…

My old kaleidoscope --
   i 

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the market value
of my childhood…

lone walk…
a street…