in iced sunlight
brightness sweetens
the bitter cold
Water’s Way
freeze and thaw
and shifting drifts
all leaning into life
Austerity
sharp edged
cold etches
light into dark
A Lingering
red canoe
a memory
of summer’s kiss
Winter Abstraction
storm’s contemplation
each flake a memory
and time reorganized
Iddy-umpty
morse code of winter
dots and dash of ice
arctic opus written in cold
Morning Moon
diamond edged air
cuts like a knife
morning moon’s cold light
Constellation
starry night
upon the ground
astronomy on earth
Residency
on the north side
winter still resides
Cells
nature draws
abstractions of
the building blocks of life
Yet
a memory of last summer’s sun
the winter field not yet touched
by the greens of spring
Bees
they buzz in bubbles
beneath the ice
water is their wings
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
Permission
as ice gives its form to water
permission is granted to wander
Portend
the weather
dreamed of spring
in water eggs and feather ice
Metamorphosis
winter’s icy caterpillar
gestates spring’s
tender wings of color
Fluid
in the rush of change
the only way to become oriented
is to surrender to transformation
Eventually
what separates us
will shatter or melt
if we stay with love
Waterfall Window Dressing
frozen cascade
winter’s cold curtain
oh the drapery of days
Halt
birch and brushs’
wade through winter
halted by the frozen flood
The Enoughness of Nothing
in nothing
everything
rejoiced
Efforts of Ice
sedulous winter
tries again and again
to make the cold hold
Adjourned
seconds suspended
the frozen motion
of time on ice
Time’s Bridge
the center reaches
for the shore
shadows seek the light
Filigree of Trees
in the freezing fog
everything is seen
with crystal eyes
The Migration of Melt
the brook breaks free
and runs for the river
longing to unite with the sea
Spring Flowering
a rose
of snow
bloomed in March
Glimmer
glinting ice
in the snowy field
a wink from spring