bird box – Leaf And Twig

Sleep Over

April snow spent the night
the running brook hopes
to escort her back home

the proportion between
bird box and forest trees
makes me right sized

the landscape
soothed
by a gentle rain

the frozen marsh
the fallow field
everything in its time

throughout
winter’s long march
positions held for spring

a meeting place
for man and nature’s
communion

old homestead
holding the place
for spring

stepping stones
in the mossy path
invitation to the woods

tending and guarding
the vigilant work
of parenting

phoebe
on her nest
of moss and dryer fluff

peeking out
the storm’s force and fury
remains in the tilted horizon

autumn light
etches the edges
of everything into memory

lupin shared their secrets
of beauty, bloom and seed
summer spread across the field

the colors
wrap around us
we are held
in heaven’s embrace

in the kindness
of June’s gentle sun
babies feather and iris bloom