Sunday, September 30, 2007

Tomatoes

A few tomatoes,
Yellow and sweet, still hang
Like Christmas candy.

Tic-tac-toe

The angels play
Tic-tac-toe
In the jet streams.

My mother painted

My mother brushed
Pink over washed blue,
Watercolor sunsets.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Fall

Brown cornhusks whisper
To lush green hedges
Of leaf-fall.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Bees

I never dared
Walk barefoot through white clover.
Now the bees are gone.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Leaf

Leaf pirouettes
Down to the stream, twirls once,
And aims for the sea.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Cricket

Cricket shrills
In the stone jar beside me.
A hundred call back.

Red geranium

Red geranium
Trampled under the street lamp
Is still red.

Sunflower

Sunflower leans west.
Heart-shaped leaves arc above
The winter cabbage.

Friday, August 10, 2007

The Fair

The Fair winds down,
Carny music, shrieks from riders,
Cries of the doomed lambs.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Amputated tree

Amputated tree
Beside its chopped limbs, looks at
A new hole in the sky.