the silver birch and fern
so precise in their details
of becoming and departing
Two Directions, One Journey
Replicating Reptiles
scute and scaled
no longer a log
now a crocodile
Microscopic Astronauts
the ground grew
a space station ready
to launch spores into flight
Golden Goblet
for the fairies banquet
fresh rain water served
with a leaf stem straw
One Way To Mark Your Place In Time
with one step
we are on the other side
and a new year begins
Her Warm Yellow Glow
peek a boo
with
the morning moon
Beginnings
tiny pine
sets sights
on the sky
Making Music
all the peepers
dance
to the fiddlehead’s tune
Last Year’s Leaves
while leaving
they reveal the beauty
of their complexities
Birch Bark Mushroom
decomposition
a transition of
sustenance to self
Luck Is Made
no fourth
leaf needed
good luck underfoot
The Artist At Play
nature
in her paint box
the intrepid unexpected
Tiny Are All Beginnings
at the crest
of a moss mountain
a pine begins
Movement Without Moving
even the stationary rock
will cross the line
in due time
Stegosaurus
green dinosaur
rises from the ancient earth
defying extinction
Spot Light
found by the light
or light from within
a beacon
Peacefully
everything found
its perfect place
to be
Excursion
The air is as brisk as it is blue.
The work to reach the rise is well worth the view.
Return
The birch lies with lichen and leaves
only to rise again in the next season
as hope eternal, the spring ephemerals.
Encouragement
last year’s pinecone
inspires this year’s seedling.
Spiral
A spiral staircase from the forest floor
like an Escher leading everywhere and nowhere
all at once.
Winter’s Impressionism
Still life of a winter’s day.