Friday, May 16, 2025

 River View Cemetery 


So many sittings

at graves 

on wet grass. 

A sprawling bush

where ashes

of a lover, a

brother, both

parents placed

under earth. 

On wet grass—

so many sittings,

family tombstones,

grave markers,

a bush fed by ash,

wordlessly here

we sit

on wet grass….


Thursday, May 15, 2025

A buttery slant

Of sunlight 

Beckons.


Forgoing all manners,


Dawn’s beacon

Subtly unruly


Welcomes

Us truly.  


 the wind sings

like a stream

learning to dream


like unseen currents

of a river flowing


you bite your words

like teeth

and tongue


tasting truth


then suddenly 

closing

 October, Lake Superior 


you fell as a leaf

onto the lake below. 

you claimed you knew 

what you could not know.

you surrounded your days

with words that glow. 

you fell as a leaf

onto the lake below. 

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

 Blue Vase, Pink Flowers 


The vase of roses


all at once


have turned 

their crowd


of pink


faces towards 

a buttery


slant of

sunlight,


smiling faintly


petals blinking


they’re  glad 

to be

waking up,


dwelling

within blue

space,


gathering


day’s tasks 

together 


here


and

nowhere 


else. 

 Morning’s Hordes


There’s an epidemic 

of poetry 


invading 

my house—


I’ve never 

felt so well

protected


since inviting

these invaders

in. 

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

roots deepen

in fidelity 

to mystery

of longing 

for water’s

unseen 

belonging….