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 revisits

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