Tuesday, April 1, 2025


Her ears are eager

 She seems to know what I think

Her tail says it all 


Monday, March 31, 2025

 It will go away

When it has finished its work

The moral of pain

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Hoping for peaches
There are rumors in the bloom
Spotless spring morning

Saturday, March 29, 2025



First greeting of spring

Most completely indigo

The glad hyacinth 

Friday, March 28, 2025

 Most of what I’ve known 

Wasn’t thinking after all

Thoughts that were not made

 

Thursday, March 27, 2025

 Powered by the reef

The wave gathers its body

Then destroys itself

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

There is still much left

Of stories hardly begun

And of love unspent

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

the oppressors know 

the power of ignorance

make america dim

Monday, March 24, 2025

 The orange tree trembles

The temptation of fragrance

A feast for the bees

Sunday, March 23, 2025

 To reckon of me

I will share stories with you

Come sit by my side

Saturday, March 22, 2025

 The miles and the time

Form stories ever changing

The same neverless


Friday, March 21, 2025

 He has been unmoored

Carried by silent currents

No wind in his sail

Thursday, March 20, 2025

 Rich do what they want

Then the achingly sad part

Poor do what they must

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Still wet from the night

The poppies unfold slowly

Sunny reverence


Tuesday, March 18, 2025

 This contagious day

I am infected with spring

A plague of beauty


Monday, March 17, 2025

 Starlings doves and quail

Set asunder for cover

When the hawk soars by

Sunday, March 16, 2025

 Beyond the heartache

He lives alone by the sea

Tides for company


Saturday, March 15, 2025

 I must leave this road

And ramble the timbered hills

Where whippoorwills call

Friday, March 14, 2025

Quail drop from their roost

 The hummingbird resumes its bliss

All morning could be


Thursday, March 13, 2025


 Dappled in summer

Adaptable ptarmigan 

Snow pure in winter

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

           Rule of the rulers

Entertain them with awful

Thinking optional

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

 Impetuous spring

Unfurls a brilliant tribute

Winter rewarded

Monday, March 10, 2025

 a lad of talent

bearing with such cleverness 

the fair crown of youth

Sunday, March 9, 2025

 Then tulips up reach

Goblets of lustrous wonder

Filling with sunlight



Saturday, March 8, 2025

The fields are trampled

Handbills scatter in the wind

 After the circus 

Friday, March 7, 2025

 when all is springtime 

blessed ribbons from the sky

wonderful puddles


Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tireless artisans 

 Bees expect no gratitude 

Their work is their thanks



Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Heavens in a breath

The muchness of the moment

Oceans in a drop

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

 don't be complainin'

if you don't like potatoes

don't dig in my yard

Monday, March 3, 2025

 Dry desperation

The roots are the last to die

And first to repay

Sunday, March 2, 2025

 The faithful black dog

Spends the morning on the porch 

Waiting for the truck 


Saturday, March 1, 2025

Morning with a  breeze

Sun shinin’ in the back door

The cat’s out to hunt


Friday, February 28, 2025

 Alfred E Neuman

Distilled a sea of twaddle

To “What, me worry?”

Thursday, February 27, 2025

 Forgotten letters

Brittle but unabated

Wait in the attic


Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The last time I checked 

I'm still lookin' like myself

Nice consolation

 All are made of one

The greatest common factor

No life is trifling


Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Your laws and libel

 Who do you think you’re fooling 

Reckonings will come 

Monday, February 24, 2025

Like Ouroboros 

 Absurdity of vengeance 

Will consume itself

Sunday, February 23, 2025

The swollen orange buds 

What sound unloosed when they burst?

Only the bees know

Saturday, February 22, 2025

 Breaking the quiet 

A buck through the underbrush

His nostrils steaming

Friday, February 21, 2025

 have the roots lost hope?

when the tortoise emerges 

will it know the world?

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Patiently crocheted 

A tablecloth stained with love

By generations 


Wednesday, February 19, 2025

 This morning feels fine

Peaceful as a sleeping dog

Soaking in sunlight

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

 The widow entreats

Come under my veil with me

Know how cold my heart

Monday, February 17, 2025

Sacrificial fruit

Briefly ripened  - soon withered

Will render the seeds


Sunday, February 16, 2025

 A stirring surmise

Made dim in the daylight

Burning while I sleep



Saturday, February 15, 2025

By intuition 

Nature is truth - as it is

Gods in the smallest


Friday, February 14, 2025

 Lyrics in water

Composed by what lies beneath

The hindered flow sings

Thursday, February 13, 2025

 One who lives with poise

Whose lot flows with the current

Loos’d of all desire

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

There shall be no thrones

No nobles or attendants 

Bread for everyone

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Ponder this mankind 

 What if hope is a woman

Would that explain it

Monday, February 10, 2025

 The increase of night 

A cold carriage approaches

Its footman beckons

Sunday, February 9, 2025

 The length of my life 

Is not as important as

The length of my health 

Saturday, February 8, 2025

True without a proof

 There are stars we’ll never see

Heavens past heavens

Friday, February 7, 2025

 Before in darkness

Only the sun and a fire 

Could foretell shadows

Thursday, February 6, 2025

The swirling patterns

A sable cloud of starlings

Random or given?



Wednesday, February 5, 2025

 Vainly deluded

Humanity’s whole extent

Is barely a blink 

is this our someday?

 to be plodding sequiturs?

shadows that follow?

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

 An indigo night

Moonless waves fall gracefully

Edged with gauzy foam

Monday, February 3, 2025

 Trapped in the chapel

Thrashing against the stained glass 

A desperate dove

Sunday, February 2, 2025

 When we were savage

Perfectly unenlightened

Before there was why

Saturday, February 1, 2025

In the pathless woods 

The ravenous elk bugles

"Come for me!" he calls


Friday, January 31, 2025

 A barnacled hull 

I trim my sheets to the squall

Wild gusts of my life!



Thursday, January 30, 2025

Let’s go cross country

Until we come to the cliffs

Where the condors soar


Wednesday, January 29, 2025

 It’s too late to die 

(where is my generation)

Before I get old


Tuesday, January 28, 2025

 If I had my way

After all is said and done 

I’d leave ‘em laughing

Monday, January 27, 2025

 honorable lives

that they may serve as water

to quench and quicken 


Sunday, January 26, 2025

 While innocence hopes

Ambition forgives cruelty

Somewhere there is war

Saturday, January 25, 2025

 The man to the boy

What was the best thing today?

Right now is, Father

Friday, January 24, 2025

panoply of clouds

a mystic combination

of water and air

Thursday, January 23, 2025

 i offer this thread

a frayed end of silken thoughts

pull and i'm unstitched

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

 Billboards are blaring

With faces of the lawyers 

Land of grievances

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

 


When it all had worth

They expected the rag man

His bundles in tow

Monday, January 20, 2025

 The old county road

A dog chased the rusty truck

Both faded with dust



Sunday, January 19, 2025

 The First


They followed the tracks

Mammoths on the horizon

To un-peopled lands


Saturday, January 18, 2025

 When you have questions 

But don’t need to have answers

Come see about me


Friday, January 17, 2025

 Singin' in the car

Don’t care what time I get there

I love this next song

Thursday, January 16, 2025

 A gray brittle twig

Depleted - almost hopeless

Too far from the roots

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The message she wrote

Has never faded away

What's done is not done

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Without a good-bye

 She got off near Santa Fe

Dissolved into dawn

Monday, January 13, 2025


A faint morning moon

She wrote something on his palm

And pressed it to hers

Sunday, January 12, 2025

 When he asked her name

She placed her hand on his lips

Listen for the moon

Saturday, January 11, 2025

 The train turned a bend

Her head fell to his shoulder

They dreamed without sleep


Friday, January 10, 2025

 They talked in darkness

Without ending a story

Or starting the next

Thursday, January 9, 2025

 As the night rolled on

She said that love and passion 

Do not need to rhyme

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

 She told of the South

Of hands bleeding from the fields

Of faith and aching

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

 Her dark eyes spoke out

A daring invitation

You can come closer

Monday, January 6, 2025

 Though they'd never met

Her look said that she knew him

Before we they born


Sunday, January 5, 2025

 When he noticed her 

 She was immersed in the land

Her eyes rimmed with tears

Saturday, January 4, 2025

This haiku and the twelve that follow comprise an accidental story of sorts.


He lost his ticket

Not sure where the train headed

Just feeling the ride

Friday, January 3, 2025

 Ironically

It's hard to spot a leopard

Or even see one

Thursday, January 2, 2025

 My Dad used to say

I feel more like I do now

Than a while ago

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

 2025

This is how the year begins

With doubt and a sigh

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 Though still and pallid

Winter's no infirmity

Spring will blush again


Monday, December 30, 2024

I can remember

(this happened before i died)

The slow forgetting

Sunday, December 29, 2024

 With sun they start work

There’s no finer certainty

The bees of July




When he is missing

What matters and gives him peace

Someplace warm to sleep

Saturday, December 28, 2024


 Too long without rain

The desert lives on remains

Nothing  dares to breathe

Friday, December 27, 2024

The recondite cat

Being charming but aloof

Comes comfortably

Thursday, December 26, 2024

 My father taught me

Of responsibility

My mother - to fly

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

 Make evergreen wreaths

Adorn them with love and cheer

Decorate this day!


Tuesday, December 24, 2024

 Children everywhere

Put your excitement abed

Dream of tomorrow

Monday, December 23, 2024

 I am suns and moons

The seasons each to other

Cylces in circuits

Sunday, December 22, 2024

The favorite trail

Is now longer and steeper

My bootsoles wear thin

Saturday, December 21, 2024

 Surf assaults the shore

A lighthouse burns through the fog

Helmsmen sail on faith


Friday, December 20, 2024

why not consider?

content instead of happy?

which a better peace?

 My faith comes to this

I will tend to my garden

And it will tend me

Thursday, December 19, 2024

 A dog to itself

Making humans feel better

Is tail-heavy work


Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Devout and time-worn

The oak tree preaches wisdom 

Doves stop to worship


 

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

 Pausing to relax

On the enduring passage

Water forms a pond

Monday, December 16, 2024

 I’m a scavenger

Searching through thoughts left behind

Gathering potsherds

Sunday, December 15, 2024

 Dactylonomy

Certainly comes in handy

When writing haiku

Saturday, December 14, 2024

 The river's water

Is anonymous again

As it joins the sea


Friday, December 13, 2024

 Privilege  of dogs

To sleep wherever they want

I am envious



Thursday, December 12, 2024

 She can barely breathe

The tears tremble down her face

This is how love costs


Wednesday, December 11, 2024

 i accept this now

to sit quietly alone

and hear myself breathe

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

 Freedom for women

Suppressed throughout the ages

By the church and state 

Monday, December 9, 2024

 He was up all night

Not believing in the dawn

While fear fed on him

Sunday, December 8, 2024

yielding but steadfast 
a tree is a trusted friend
without doubt or guile


Friday, December 6, 2024

 These tracks are southbound

They run to Mississippi

Where blues plays all night

Thursday, December 5, 2024

To my excitement

Erumpent gladiolas

Send up their first spears

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

 What time is it now?

A question once never asked

Before there was next



Tuesday, December 3, 2024

 Appreciate life

Even pond scum has purpose

There is blue in green




Monday, December 2, 2024

 When stories dissolve

When there's no truth or fiction

What will bind us then 

Sunday, December 1, 2024

 Invisible wall

Without a door or window
Can words penetrate?

Saturday, November 30, 2024

 Like roots in a tree

There is more of you and I 

Than what can be seen

Friday, November 29, 2024

This our family

Of humor, talent, and grace

 Self-emptying love

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Kindness for others

May this be our thanksgiving

Nothing more or less

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Neglected  bouquet

Rose petals fall from the vase

Sere but still fragrant




Tuesday, November 26, 2024

 Careful as you step

There is more than one reason

That they’re called flip flops

Monday, November 25, 2024

 Shoulder their worries

They are young and will repay

It is worth the weight

Sunday, November 24, 2024

 A point of order

Who said this guy named Robert

Gets to make the rules?

Saturday, November 23, 2024

 Can they remember?

Entwined - tumid and gleaming

The fierce smell of love? 

Friday, November 22, 2024

 


With no up or down

We all live on island earth

Afloat together

Thursday, November 21, 2024

 Of someone's nature

That which speaks eloquently

Where they find beauty


Wednesday, November 20, 2024

 To sleep - I must sleep

These dreams derange the darkness

If I could just sleep 

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

 When I am hiking

I feel closer to the earth

Peaceful humility


Monday, November 18, 2024

 Let us be advised

If you can’t be wise - be kind

Others will give thanks

Sunday, November 17, 2024

 With no place in mind

Daydreaming amid the pines

Wondering nothing

Saturday, November 16, 2024

In the remainder

Let me ramble like the wolf

Following a scent

Friday, November 15, 2024

 Which is more dreadful

Fear of something or nothing

The known or unknown

Thursday, November 14, 2024

 Elixir of thanks

Even offered for the least 

Is balm for the heart

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

 It pleases my soul

To put my hand on your back

And know you’re near me

Tuesday, November 12, 2024


Sometimes in the wild

I enjoy hearing one thing

Faintly my footsteps





Monday, November 11, 2024

 There’s more to be found

Elder folk should still explore

Always being born


Sunday, November 10, 2024

 Foretelling the storm

The wind's sure sililoquy

Speaks where no one hears

Saturday, November 9, 2024

 An old dusty dog

As dependable as tides 

Waits for his next meal 

Friday, November 8, 2024

It must be dauntless

When art becomes civilized

It turns to culture


Thursday, November 7, 2024

Woman of color

Prices, immigrants, and wars

They fall for the fraud


Wednesday, November 6, 2024

 The grace of the whale

Northbound from Baja's warm gulf

A calf by her side

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

 If we are so great

Why can’t the popular vote

Elect the POTUS?

Monday, November 4, 2024

They know of water

 And the approach of winter

Plants have agency


Sunday, November 3, 2024

Walk in the woodlands

There are tidings in the trees

Messages of sap

Saturday, November 2, 2024

The burden of fear

 Worry feels better than naught

When faced with unknown 

Friday, November 1, 2024

 The will-o-the-wisp

Rises in gold - sets in blood

Shroud of ghostly light

Thursday, October 31, 2024

 He wandered away

As though he was attracted

To some dark allure


Wednesday, October 30, 2024

 Faint calliope

There's a trail of dust out west 

The circus draws near

Tuesday, October 29, 2024



A dim unswept room

Moths raise their dusty flutter

Webs wait in corners

Monday, October 28, 2024



Grateful ofrenda

A constellation of heirs

Glows with devotion

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Play mariachis!

Cry the song of love’s lament

 What a joyful pain



Saturday, October 26, 2024

Friday, October 25, 2024

A cheerful drifter

Spins a hurdy gurdy tune

Children twirl with glee

Thursday, October 24, 2024

There is a fable 

The raven who ate the sun

Calls but cannot sing

 Cold fog on the lake

The ospreys have quit their nest

Geese are on the wing


Wednesday, October 23, 2024

 When I am joyful

And quiet and satisfied 

I stop making sense


Tuesday, October 22, 2024

 The storyteller

Waits in her candle-lit tent

Your life for a dime

Monday, October 21, 2024

 Ghosts of volcanoes

Haunt Coconino's plateau

Does lava still lurk?

Sunday, October 20, 2024

 When written at last

My story will fill the page

No room for margins

Saturday, October 19, 2024

 Autumn is paisley 

Layers of twisting patterns

Colors intertwined 


Friday, October 18, 2024

 The moon longs for light 

Like a suitor suspended

Fain to glow again

Thursday, October 17, 2024

 What sore secret broods

What revenant visits her

That she wakes weeping

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

 Once in the springtime

The remontant dianthus

Gives again in fall

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

 my autumnal friends

changing lives - stories falling

expecting winter

Monday, October 14, 2024

Clement October

 A good day for a tootle

With nothing in mind

Sunday, October 13, 2024

 Something beyond us

Where the compass will not point

Without reference



Saturday, October 12, 2024

 reliably kind

when the days increase with warm

spring forgives winter

Friday, October 11, 2024

 Encouraged by the rain

The Ponderosas respire

A vanilla balm


Thursday, October 10, 2024

 I am primitive

A glad and natural beast

More ape than angel

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

 We are taking more

Than the earth has to render

Nature's depletion

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

 In spite of ourselves

There’s fortune on the table 

We just have to choose

Monday, October 7, 2024

 Before he looked out

He knew the snow had fallen

First of the winter


 

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Deprived of the sun

Leaves beautifully dying

Latent hues revealed

Saturday, October 5, 2024

 Winter is sabbath 

Time for rest and reflection

Covenant renewed


Friday, October 4, 2024

 I would have few doubts

About what I think I know

Were it not for dreams

Thursday, October 3, 2024

 Prints of beginning

Early thoughts of a young man

Letters to myself

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

 The charm of autumn

Never is a conclusion 

As bright and graceful


Tuesday, October 1, 2024

may there never be 

something lost for what you need

enough for enough



Monday, September 30, 2024

 Pulled weeds this morning

My fingers still smell like dirt

It’s been a good day

Sunday, September 29, 2024

 O the refeshment!

A blue jay in the puddle

Flitter - flutter - splash!

Saturday, September 28, 2024

 Neither when nor was

Every time that I wake up

It is still today

Friday, September 27, 2024

No delight compares

Surrounded by sensation

A dog in the woods

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Listen carefully

Can you hear beyond the words?

The most is unsaid

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

 There's much to be gained

From an aimless meander

Each stride adventure


Monday, September 23, 2024

Just the hawk and I

Drifting in the equinox

Warming air lifts us 



Sunday, September 22, 2024

 what his eyes revealed

never so secret again

love changed forever

Saturday, September 21, 2024

 Fully propounded

The moon hangs like a question

A bright cloudless night

Friday, September 20, 2024

There should be a group

Where they share stories of loss 

Socks Without Partners

Thursday, September 19, 2024

 Cleaned out the garage

Found letters from my young loves

Some still make me cry

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

 He would be a fool

To not know that he's a fool

Certainly likewise

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

 The way that you think

Bears more import than the what

But less than you feel


Monday, September 16, 2024


Suspended in dawn

 Ghost of a summer's flower

Gauzy perfection



Sunday, September 15, 2024

 here's the gist of it

i've lived with me long enough

 to know i'll be fine

Saturday, September 14, 2024

 Heavens to Betsy!

My mother used to exclaim

I still don't get it

Friday, September 13, 2024

 Donald and JD

Stay away from dogs and cats

They can smell a fraud

Thursday, September 12, 2024

 In the dry lake bed

The elk assemble to graze

Before heading south 

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

 See their hollow eyes

Who is want will seek for some

Hunger breeds the thieves 


Tuesday, September 10, 2024

 When the data thinks

The union of opposites

Leaves one dimension

Monday, September 9, 2024

 What is it of grass

That reaches into our hearts

Cool blades of calm

Sunday, September 8, 2024

our new intellect 

choices but few alternatives

a spare amplitude



Saturday, September 7, 2024

Summer paseo

Cicadas sing in the gloam

Neighbors on the porch

Friday, September 6, 2024

 When you need a friend

To bring gladness and respite

Call one with four legs

Thursday, September 5, 2024

 Summer afternoon

Just one rule for kids at play

Be home by supper

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

 How sweet September

The last breath of the summer 

Still green and mellow

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Appreciation

 My dog's chin rests on my lap

He thanks more than I



Monday, September 2, 2024

 The twilight holds fast

To the last reserves of day

As night advances


Sunday, September 1, 2024

What now hereafter 

What will I write when I'm gone

Not of things to come



Saturday, August 31, 2024

 The promise of fall

All that is of seasons born

Eventual green

Friday, August 30, 2024

When I consider

How do I know what I know

By reason of what

Thursday, August 29, 2024

 from its many buds

i was expecting more fruit

than the year would yield

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Made by caring hands

With sinew, reeds, and willow

Baby's cradle board 

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

 He has beads to sell

Sitting on a curb - pale-eyed

He pleads “por favor”


Monday, August 26, 2024

 When I was a youth

Willing to starve for a rhyme

Craving little else

Sunday, August 25, 2024

 She is a prism

Through which the white light of day

Bends into colors

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Bare-limbed oaks of fall

 Stronger from what they have lost

Nourishing themselves

Friday, August 23, 2024

Cones are almost ripe

As calls imbue the morning

Pinion jays rejoice

Thursday, August 22, 2024

 We have primal choice

A scropulous criminal

Or woman of grace


Wednesday, August 21, 2024

 Why It Is Fall

Blooms release their seeds

Ponderosas quit their cones

All things back to earth

Tuesday, August 20, 2024


 this bare lifeless tree

a shadow of its shadow

leans but does not fall

Monday, August 19, 2024

 when it is winter

the seeds wait under the cold

but do not forget

Sunday, August 18, 2024

first to the peanut

a parsimonious crow

departs with its prize


Saturday, August 17, 2024

 while in the washer

my clothes get so excited

they turn inside out

Friday, August 16, 2024

from the essence

the eternal feminine

lures to fruition


Thursday, August 15, 2024

 the fox is startled

its face stained with rabbit blood

it crouches - then darts

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

in a cadent gait

baggy suit - green fedora

he whistles Blue Moon

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

 A charming blossom

Belies her struggle beneath

Potted and root-bound

Monday, August 12, 2024

 scrupulous spider

waits on its gossamer net

a gnat flies headlong


Sunday, August 11, 2024

Wherefor, I surmise

There are no secrets in art

It's meant be known


Saturday, August 10, 2024

whatever the point

 waste no time in its proving

time will forget it

Friday, August 9, 2024

The random bubble

Floating in perfect tension

Bursting with colors

Thursday, August 8, 2024

 Humiliation

Shares the same space as triumph

Lonely places both

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

 No guise or design

Explains the storm’s confusion

The night is fractured

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

 



the shrinking river

groans under its cold lading

helplessly it calves

Monday, August 5, 2024

 It rises for air

(a sudden splash of wonder)

Spouting sea skyward

Sunday, August 4, 2024

spinning seeds of ash

the twilight shroud of summer

 green lanterns floating

Saturday, August 3, 2024

 A turbulent ride

Aboard the covidcoaster

Not thrilled - but consumed

Friday, August 2, 2024



 At Ketchikan Creek

The salmon will soon swim home

Odyssey of life




A thin golden crease

Where the clouds allow the sun

The gray sea afire

Thursday, August 1, 2024

 My fashion standards

To wear no tie - tuck no shirt

To not be the worst 

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

 My purple-veined babe

Peach-fleshed and staring at me

Corn silk for your hair 

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

 Momentary lapse

Two monsters have locked their horns

The stink of skid marks 

Monday, July 29, 2024

 the peach - now full - drops

an avid squirrel finds it

eats all but the pit

Sunday, July 28, 2024

All dressed in colors

 July comes like a maiden

Tumid and fruitful

Saturday, July 27, 2024

When it all depends

On weight of a circumstance

Why bother with fear


Friday, July 26, 2024

 Is it possible 

True interconnectedness 

Indivisible?

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Summer’s endowments

Shirtless lads and lightning flies

 Corn and carnivals

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

I have reached my time

 When questions turn to wonder

Where sense means marvel

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

 A small piebald dog

Who has never seen itself

Thinks nothing of pride



Monday, July 22, 2024

There should be more days

In which nothing is required

Days of happy chance

Sunday, July 21, 2024

 one sudden moment

glows in the measureless span

a star in itself




Saturday, July 20, 2024

 colors are no accident

with a clear purpose for each

prismatic wonder

Friday, July 19, 2024

 how withered the lives

that have found nothing to share

how sole and arid 

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

 A thunderous sky

Birds seek shelter in the pines

The forest trembles

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

 Will life assemble

To a predestined center

Where it all makes sense

Monday, July 15, 2024

 as the day retires

the last candles are blown out

thin smoke from their wicks

Sunday, July 14, 2024

 A pale glimpse of dawn

I’ve known too much of the night

It’s too late to sleep

Saturday, July 13, 2024

 Morning seatherny 

Their chorus fills the garden

My heart glad with them


Friday, July 12, 2024

 Rolling in my sleep

Waves of dreams wash over me

Restless day ahead 

Thursday, July 11, 2024

 These long green days

Times of common paradise

When summer repays


Wednesday, July 10, 2024

 When they had little

But their love and innocence 

When they were once rich

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

 Crow to another

Have you found something to eat?

Enough to partake?

Monday, July 8, 2024

I-40 at dusk

Headed west outside Flagstaff

Peaks against pale skies

Sunday, July 7, 2024

They all make good sense 

The arguments and reasons

Yet, of course, unless

Saturday, July 6, 2024

 They are no less wed

Two hundred seasons have passed

Love still binds their lives

Friday, July 5, 2024

 Uninvited guest

While I was hiking in peace

A bug up my nose!

Thursday, July 4, 2024

 On a southbound train

Shantytowns along the tracks

Dirty children wave


Wednesday, July 3, 2024

 Shindy of finches

Taking turns at the feeder

Blithely aflutter

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

 I will rest my head

On the pillow of summer

And enjoy bright dreams





Monday, July 1, 2024


Night-red hollyhock

Dusted with stars of pollen

Defies summer's glare