nuance is sly
relying upon
hard edges
Fate Awaits
lanterns and pies
bounty of the pumpkin patch
await their destiny
Darkness in the Light
lantern’s speck of light
trusted guide
on a dark day
Devotion
to be waited for
and received in love
is the soul of homecoming
Teachers
the wildflowers’ lesson
bloom with abandon
The Nature of Time
slowly thyme
makes its way
across the lawn of summer
Care
stone memories
held in place
by grace
Seeing Through
seek
intimacy with existence
look without naming
Glimpse
a space in the rock wall
like a portal to the future
provides a glimpse of green
Yearning
the trunk
entwined and crossed
a wish for old forest growth
Collective
six stones
supported by
the rest of the rock wall
Lessons
wildflowers instruct us
bloom where you are
The Sweet Season
Sugar maples
give rise
to great expectations.
The Trek
Up to their knees in snow
a trio of turkeys
navigate the rock wall.
Bygone Days
Keeping nothing in and no one out
the wall wanders the mountain
dreaming of open fields and hand plows.
Landscape
In the rock wall
resides the landscape
of the moon.
Rock Wall
God is here in this rock wall,
in the mind that planned it, in the hands that made it,
in the earth that holds it, in the rain that will wash it,
in the snow that will gather on it, and the sun that dries it.
