the May breeze
takes its holiday
at the marsh
Traces
red buds
spring’s fingerprints
on the white woods
Dirty Knees
mud season
mother earth’s
warm fertile embrace
Unfurling
the birch presents her alabaster skin
to springs gentle administrations
Replenished
joy made tangible
those tender greens
make my heart sing
May I
welcome are the clouds
of April’s dappled skies
who shower us with colors
Peppered Sky
sky peppered with birds
the seasoning of spring
Awakening
invisible
is the rousing
of the drowsy woods
To Come And Go
cold must rise in order to leave
every thing comes and everything goes
in nature’s design of time
On The North Side
shade shelters the cold
allowing winter to persist
between pickets and pines
New Day
the light still lingers
from some other
morning’s moon
Robins
seduce me
with your song of spring
of love and life and hope you sing
Fissure
shell of clouds cracks
yoke of blue
seeps through
The Listening World
all of creation
holding its breath
listening for the stirrings spring
Zig Zag
like the teeth of a zipper
brown and ground emerge
opening to spring
Preparation
mended fence
the paddock waits
for green grass and grazing
One of a Scurry
chin scratch
bare patch
April molt
Expectation
across the winter muted terrain
dogwood grew a net of color
with hopes of catching spring
Promise of Promise
leaves still illuminated
by last summer’s light
promising of her return
Hidden Light
the sun obscured
a wintry day
the willow weeps
Now
clarity found
in the misty woods
eternity is always now
Apeiron
stripes of white
cut through
an infinity of blue
Summoning Blue Skies
the mountain ridge
the sumac’s reach
the destiny of spring
Glimmer
glinting ice
in the snowy field
a wink from spring
Declared
sun shoulders out the snow
last years blooms trumpet
beauty’s determination
Orchard Dance
wind swirls
skirts of snow
at the feet of trees
Only
sunlight and shadows
traverse
the pristine field
Fences
keeping out
and keeping in
the work of wire and wood
Seeker
foraging the snowdrifts
searching through the snowflakes
woody browse to ruminant
Willing To Be Lead
the road
leading into the wilderness
leads out as well