in longing for spring
a blooming
of cold
Trees’ Desire
Find One In The Other
frost at work
making both
needles and hay
Recognition
mid February in the woods
winter’s eye looked in mine
and winked I do believe
Valentine
primrose
blooming love
to everyone
Feed The Birds
pinecone’s homage
leaving seeds
looking like feet
Spot Of Green
in the pale landscape
winter elevates
moss and lichen
Gathering
individuals collecting
protecting
the delicate necessity
Rouge
the vixen amaryllis
an enchantment
amidst winter’s white
Shell And Shield
second skin
shimmering armour
of ice
With What Is At Hand
old Queen Anne
her winter bloom
made of snow
The Snow Abstracted
an icing
of snowflakes
time suspended
A Purposeful Beauty
oh to age
as gracefully and generously
as the wildflower
Remaining
the couple
sustaining each other
in bloom
The Leaving
the parts
no longer there
filled in by memory
Dried And Frosted Meadow Flower
a beauty formed
by passing time
the ending delicate
as the beginning
Berries Brown And Red
decorating
the landscape
feeding the birds
Blushed With Cold
edges
articulated
by frost
All Things Possible
cabbage petals
ruffled like a rose
she dreamed herself
into flower
Blue Goodbye
beneath the care
and protection of the pine
monkshood gifts us a final bloom
Legacy
coneflowers stand
in tribute to
their former themselves
Contained
inhabiting an oak leaf
all the colors and changes
of autumn
Wild And Free
some petals spent
the joyful bloom
undeterred
Shell Collecting
the forest
a green ocean
her leafy tide revealing
mushroom seashells
Flowers In Lamp Light
cosmos defiant hoorah
as if to prove
the potency of bloom
Seed Packages
tiny envelopes
of the future’s promise
soon to be sent via airmail
Nature’s Merriment
pink leaves
giggling up color
amidst the waning ferns
Geometry
lines and intersections
angles of angles
the fluency of plants
in the language of math
Rise Up
keep reaching
for the light
illuminate what is right
Behold
the spent, the worn, the new
and the beauty
in each
The Sum Greater Than
minuscule blooms
perched upon
a multitude of stems