tender hearts
reach to warm
the cold, hard granite
Tide
liquid granite
illustrates the tide
of time
Steps to Change
in the woods
the corner waited
to be turned
Rock of Ages
the ancient rock
with its sleepy eye
watches all of time
travel by
Cenotaph
every season
leaves an inscription
in lichen lettering
On the Stoop
black cat and pink pumpkin
wait for halloween’s
ringing of the doorbell
Marker
in January
old views
feel new
Held
lichen blooms
on the granite post
barbed wire holds
the cold
Mountain Flower
mountain of pink
a landscape of blooms
mirrors the granite outcropping
Red on Rock
hot red begonia
rests against the cool granite
summer lovers
Hard Sustenance
a seed landed
a root took hold
granite grows a tree
Descender
green hearts
traverse
the granite face
Garland
Forsythia fleetingly adorns
ever enduring granite.
Galapagos Garden
Lichen archipelago
on an ocean of granite.
Time Keeper
The ledge measures time
by lichen, moss and shadow.
Time
As the oak leaf rests on granite
millenniums cradle this season.
Garden Art Show
A transitory garden mosaic
of shadow, leaves and granite veins.
Panta rhei
The flower has turned to pod
the warmth of the sun belies the bite in the breeze
everything flows.
Granite State
Miles of the great silver rock
have been cut to create the corridor
into and through the Northeast Kingdom.
Layers
The granite layer cake was frosted with snow.
It keep well for several centuries at room temperature.
When the sun often licked off all the icing
the sky simply applied another layer.
Rock
Once you were liquid, formed by waves of time.
Now you are solid, holding your place in the granite state.
Morning
Fluffy dog feet, wet with dew,
cross granite and grass
before arriving at the breakfast bowl.
