Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Consigned to the flow 

In the cold current of night

Dreams stir in eddies


 beautiful tension

the drop just before it falls

increasing - then plop!

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

 beyond what we see

perpetual and certain

new waves are forming


Monday, January 29, 2024

 unpretentiousness

all praise to the common folk

and their humble kind

Sunday, January 28, 2024

 each day at twilight

calls for assembly go out

quail roost in the tree


Saturday, January 27, 2024



what resides within
abides richly chromatic
beneath time's varnish

Friday, January 26, 2024

 She speaks so little

labored words come haltingly

but o when she sings!

Thursday, January 25, 2024


  how i wept for it

the giant suffocated

skinned and dismembered

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

 through an old window

the imperfect glass distorts

to see but not know

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

 amid this vastness

with all connected creatures

each has its own world

Monday, January 22, 2024

in a gentle rain

the day remits and lingers

whist simplicity

Saturday, January 20, 2024

ably protean 

flowing - frozen - vaporized

water will concede


Friday, January 19, 2024

On seeing a flock

 sixty house finches

more or less - what use to count

feed on winter's seeds

Thursday, January 18, 2024

delicate hoarfrost 

melts with noon's apricity 

rain forms on bare limbs

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

the winds will foretell

when the violence is nigh

trees will bend in fear

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

 The light that we see

Born of primordial stars

Already expired

Monday, January 15, 2024

 Umwelt

each creature its own

vision - smell - hearing and touch

as much as it needs

Sunday, January 14, 2024

 With each of my steps

The perpetual passage

Am I near or far

Saturday, January 13, 2024

 A dusty attic

Where the old things are consigned

Bygone yet still dear

Friday, January 12, 2024

in this we're common

whenever and anywhere

 we all come from blooms


Thursday, January 11, 2024

  pure light of a star

spans across space for eons

impeded by earth

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

 Don't count them as lost

Those things you don't remember

They remember you

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

 a covey of quail

do they chuckle about me

as they scoot away

Monday, January 8, 2024

 a hero's pursuit

across vast and foreign lands

in search of his lot

Sunday, January 7, 2024

 the three-legged dog

knows nothing of our pity

as she wags her tail

Saturday, January 6, 2024

 equanimous cat

crouches in the tall dry grass

the mouse had no chance

Friday, January 5, 2024

the rewarding part

whatever i've learned and lost 

i am still in school

Thursday, January 4, 2024

 we the incautious

see what we've done to the sky

that hangs so heavy

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

consider what lies 

at the center of your map

you or somewhere else

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

 hunting raspberries

where the sun and rain are right

swelling until sweet

Monday, January 1, 2024

 Morning in the woods

Barren - quiet - hibernal

A gray fox leaves tracks