A Haiku Bouquet — Dawn’s light kissing skin With delicate dappled touch Enveloping warmth. A thousand leaves sway Drawn closer by yawning breath Lungs within and out. Motes dance in the gaps Left by beating pigeon’s wing Thoughtless gift of flight. Squirrel stops mid branch To stare upon the sitter They would rather climb. …

A Poem Cut it down, I want it gone Ugly thing, twisted gnarled Beyond redemption Chop it up and throw it through the grinder. A hundred years Two centuries or more From seed to sapling That ugly thing stood guard Weathered every storm But now you say, lacking charm, Its…

A Fantasy’ish Poem — Lapwing, lacewing, Yellow glare Fruitless mouths Hollow stare Black eyed bird Birthless mare Browning fields Fiery flare Trodden paths Fleeing hare Sunken pits The dead live there Boggy ground Tread with care Narrow cuts That go nowhere Crooked gates The lost beware Shadow dance In the witch’s lair Fleeting glimpse Auburn hair Love…

A Poem — The washing is done Folded neatly on the horse Underwear and shirts hanging In even rows under socks Floors swept, hoover stowed away Milk joins a solitary bag left swimming In tannined walls of cream Blue glass cradles infant leaves Green strapped white Translucent in the gentle breeze Unknown cars…