the maple leaf
and snow negotiate
time for everything
Morning’s Glory
brilliant blue
heralding
this season’s colors
Arrival
born again
born anew
spring
Play On
woodpecker’s
sheet music
composition of seasons
The Four Fields
those two couples
our friendship weathers
seasons and years
Journey
remembering it all
spring summer fall
raven heads into winter
Ancients
these limbs embrace
each season’s passage
cradling the transient now
Needles and Thread
evergreen thread
stitching together
each season to the next
Pentirsi
pentimento landscape
stark space made by winter
prior home of earliest spring
Dwelling
the old barn
is history’s house
home of every season’s work
Change
the air foretold
of fall’s approach
and meadow rue took note
Everything
the garden holds
life and death with
Buddha at the center
Yet
a memory of last summer’s sun
the winter field not yet touched
by the greens of spring
From Field To Barn
each bale contains
a cycle of seasons
the circle of life
Fortification
the landscape floods with color
and soaks into our every cell
fortifying us for winter’s long monochrome
Snow Petals
winter’s white flower
held aloft by summer’s remnants
shaped by fall’s miscellany
Queen Anne
in her final season
still she reigns supreme
Hay Bales
Packages of summer
destined for the barn
nourishment in winter
Water’s Way
Cold that is no longer snow
makes a mad dash down the brook
rushing towards spring, trying to catch summer.
In The Distance
On the far side of the horizon
summer makes her plans for us.
Discovered
To be covered
in the glitter of the season
is to be revealed.
Change
Corn tassels have browned
mist ushers in the morning
plants and weather are our time keepers.
Mud
The fifth season is mud season.
The earth is liquid with rain and snow melt,
rich with nutrients and brimming with the beginnings of new life.
Magnificent primordial ooze.
Mountains beyond Mountains
You may recognize the mountain by name or shape
but to truly know her is to walk the contours of her mass,
to watch her reveal the secrets of the seasons,
to remember and to feel the spirits of all the other feet
who have touched her and whose hearts have found home.
Stand of Birch
Their feet close together
the birch stand shoulder to shoulder
weathering all seasons.
Tree Bones
Weathered by the seasons
bleached by the sun
the bones of the tree remain.
October Morning
Color moves across the mountains
in a dazzling display of transitions
before the stark beauty of winter descends.
Fallen Leaf
When the first colorful leaf
lands on the stairs
Fall has arrived.
Transition
A single leaf speaks
of the movement
of Summer to Fall.
Antler Alter
Antlers embrace pods from the Japanese maple tree,
a shrine to the seasons of life and bounty of Sunday Mountain,
a place to worship.
