slowly goes the snail
admiring everything
knowing flowers will wait
to be seen
Behold
the bravery
of the April flower
a beauty’s brevity
Awakened
the brambles stir
branches pulse
with spring’s life force
Tide
liquid granite
illustrates the tide
of time
Suspended
sleeping beauties
their blooms await
the sun’s awakening kiss
Yellow Buds
the circumstance of spring
a clarion call
to courage in beauty
Oxblood Clapboard
use it up
wear it out
make it do
or do without
Faith Confirmed
the promise
always kept
spring’s return
Residency
on the north side
winter still resides
Another Step
space travel
the moon lands
in the door yard
Cells
nature draws
abstractions of
the building blocks of life
Remnant of Everything
discarded bark contains
the sunrise and the sunset
and the dark side of the moon
Bees
they buzz in bubbles
beneath the ice
water is their wings
Portend
the weather
dreamed of spring
in water eggs and feather ice
Metamorphosis
winter’s icy caterpillar
gestates spring’s
tender wings of color
Entrance
not broken by the places
the world has worn through
new entrances for grace
Rock of Ages
the ancient rock
with its sleepy eye
watches all of time
travel by
Middle Way
deep in the woods
on the path
leads the Buddha
Eventually
what separates us
will shatter or melt
if we stay with love
Bromeliad’s Flourish
the southernly porch
fills with winter sun
and desert blooms
The Christmas Cactus’ February Gift
I ride
a raft of color
in winter’s sea of grey
Armament
a lace of thorns
such fierce protection
the wild rose grows
Circle Theory
in the bedlam of branches
some center emerges
the circle where beginnings and endings meet
Reliance
nuance is sly
relying upon
hard edges
La Luna
the night
left behind
half of the moon
Glory, Glory, Glory
a frozen star
a gift of light
a glimpse of the divine
Edges
in the places
where we meet
we find who we are
Peacefully
everything found
its perfect place
to be
Entry to the Realm of Spirits
hollowed through
passage to
the other side
What Begins At The End
a decomposing stump
the palette
for green construction