February 2025

mounds of snow on 

our front yard a few rabbit footprints

and my love is outside scraping and shovelling 

adding to the mounds 

love piling up in this frigid winter 

rabbits finding warmth

Claire newborn

we wear masks to hold her 

this tiny girl with 

little lungs 

asleep with soother 

and we  are pierced 

through the heart by this little love 

so trusting and beautiful 

we don’t notice our masks 

birds and squirrels

today I’m watching small birds 

flitting on the branches of our pine 

white markings on their heads 

snow covers ground below 

white sparkle in the sun 

today I’m watching the squirrels 

chase each other across the snow and up the tree 

perfectly balanced along branches 

today I’m watching life in winter

20 days

20 days in the desert 

20 days in the rain

20 days in the wilderness

20 days in mental pain

40 pokes with a needle

40 tests of my blood

40 blood pressure changes

40 days of the flood

every time I get taken

for a test or a scan

for a new procedure

for a way out   a plan

I remember the oasis

of my life at home

full of people who love me

my rosetta stone

Trump series II #1

old senile lawless
nasty immature selfish
unpresidential

 

late frost

grass trembles in the wind 

sun shines but does not warm 

it seems autumn wants to take hold 

but the green protests leaves 

hanging on to trees 

grass staying stubbornly 

green flowers still colouring bright 

and here we are caught by the carbons we emit 

with nothing better to do 

than watch the grass grow

 

forty years

a round full apple 

a firm green grape 

a weighty novel 

a yellowing leaf 

a pretty path through woods 

a tenderloin steak 

a giant wave to float 

a mountain rising 

a sweet yellow cob 

a ripe juicy peach 

a green blade of grass 

a vow that makes a home