low tide . . .
river mud glistens
pink in the setting sun
Tag: water
covered with blossoms
a business card
floats on the pond
sunrise—
all at once
birds leap from the water
teaching my sons
to skip river stones
ripples converge
garden hose a silver arc reaches the last cabbage
the skip of a skipping stone alpine swifts
moving through
the summer moon
slow swell
where creek willows weave the sunlight ducklings
shallow stream
we cross a bridge
of stars
South Coast, Aqaba
We stand on the shore, a plastic bag of fins, masks and snorkels on the sand between us. A cold wind sends whitecaps scudding over the Red Sea. Without looking at one another,
sunlit lake
not a ripple
in my thoughts
row boat—
we float deeper
into dusk
rainfall
a feather on the pond
changes course
backstroke the sound of my mother’s womb
(published in Haijinx IV:1)