Wednesday, April 27, 2005

just after twilight -
like my old t.v., the colours
have bled to blue

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

the heron poised
to take a step
he does not step

Sunday, April 24, 2005

where's your heaven?
there's more sparkles in the lake
than stars in the sky

Friday, April 22, 2005

sundry flotsom
half-buried by the beach
poked by my feet

the layer of waves
that rides upon the swell -
rippled itself as well

i sometimes fear
if nothing else will destroy me
i will destroy myself

Thursday, April 21, 2005

to sun your wings
i pick a sunny stick -
wet little ladybug

bounding up the stairs
to change out of my work clothes -
the late days of spring

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

watching waves washing -
swept to sea, infinity
waxes, washes, wanes

Monday, April 18, 2005

the duckling straggles
then waggling,
struggles to catch up

two growing circles
where his wingtips dipped -
the heron is gone

Friday, April 15, 2005

trapped inside
my head, the holes too small
to tunnel out

beside the highway
an old woman like a ghost
with pussy willows

Sunday, April 10, 2005

overhanging edges
the beach falling into the creek
too wide to cross now

Thursday, April 07, 2005

running between jobs
in the warmth of the parked car
i breathe a moment

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

the spring stream heaves
the ice in blocks and it's banks
everything swept to sea

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

dark foreboding fruit
filling every empty tree -
claws with bobbing caws

Monday, April 04, 2005

frozen april creek -
every year i offer my boot
to your wet embrace

Sunday, April 03, 2005

clear april sky -
one spin in the backyard
reveals every star

confused at this point
is this a window or a mirror
and was that an echo?

effortless journey -
two hundred million miles
to gleam in your eye

Saturday, April 02, 2005

the winter is sky on earth
the spring just earth
the summer is life

the fall tightens clasps
and she laughs, but prepares
for a burial

the summer
the winter
the sky

Friday, April 01, 2005

footprints on the moon
first melted then frozen
the snow on the ice