leopard spots
zebra stripes
camouflage of ice
Water’s Way
freeze and thaw
and shifting drifts
all leaning into life
A Lingering
red canoe
a memory
of summer’s kiss
Cells
nature draws
abstractions of
the building blocks of life
March Morning
the pink of dawn
spilled onto
the frozen lawn
Abstraction of March
a flux of
halted movement
the design of fleeting time
Cattail Ice
this mercurial winter
zigs and zags
playing tag with spring
Music Leads The Way
by the frozen vernal pond
in winter’s dark white
the flutist plays
Halt
birch and brushs’
wade through winter
halted by the frozen flood
The Enoughness of Nothing
in nothing
everything
rejoiced
Adjourned
seconds suspended
the frozen motion
of time on ice
Glory, Glory, Glory
a frozen star
a gift of light
a glimpse of the divine
To Come And Go
cold must rise in order to leave
every thing comes and everything goes
in nature’s design of time
Resurrection
the ground begins
to make itself
known again
Spring Flowering
a rose
of snow
bloomed in March
Echo of Wings
dragonflies
frozen in flight
the sound of the chime
hollowed by cold
Disambiguation
frozen pond
winter travels on
long shadows
Voyage
a melt, the freeze, then awe
an ocean to cross
to reach the shores of spring
Shatterings
each crack and shattering
revealed new connections
and the permanence of change
Earth’s Wrinkles
water is the earth’s skin
wrinkled by the cold
marks and ridges telling time
the oldest story ever told
Proof
that wide blue sky
a living proof
warmer days will not be denied
In Lingering Ice
lonesome for the red winged
longing for the frogs’ calls
believing in the sun
cattails wait
Travel
shadows and sunlight
travel
the still river
Pileated
the woodpecker reaches out
for the most succulent frozen crabapple
on the tree
Endurance
beset and abandoned
the leaf boat holds
to the hope of a thaw
Determination
pines and reeds
hold tight to their colors
as winter whitens the landscape
Communication
rising to the surface
autumn’s message of love
April Ice
A storm slides in
and glazes spring
freezing her in motion.
Winter Bouquet
Winter offers a fragile bouquet
a freeze dried memory
of summer days.
Metamorphosis
The freezing pond
becomes a verdant marble.