Our golden saucerchipped then smoothed, behind bare limbsshe glows radiant.Rising while we turnon the high arc of angels,she rides royal blue.Sweet freshwater pearl,brilliant from irritant ~you float through darkness.
sky
daylong feast
You ever smelled air so thickwith pancakes, you dreamt of maple syrup rain?The morning buzz of a warm wintersettles into my cup asleaves crunch atop hot buttered streets —the day paved for champions.Translucent pink cloudssizzle over the setting sun,plated on a pastel sky.A sweet surprise afterthe daylong feast:a gibbous, soon full.
dessert by dusk
Sherbet clouds delight, glass scrapes skies, sparkling silver ~ the City arrives.
circles
The sun slinksup the back of dawn and slides down the spineof the horizon. Between these bookendswe summarize chapters missedand discuss drafts dreamed.Family, refamiliarizing.
Impressioning
Pink lily pads and dusty yellow footpaths,the dark green shadow of Monet’s madame andlight caught in fleeting whiteof their son’s bucket hat.The Riaux Valley reflectedin stunted strokes ~its stone bluesguarded by greenand ocher offsets. In The Olive Orchard, peasant skirts and tree trunksflow by the same curves ~legs and limbs aliveunder the heat of agray … Continue reading Impressioning
look up
Gray clouds hover, sopping with nudges to bask in the sunlightin spite of the cold or in preparation for it.Lighter blues descendinto the horizon carrying white whisps as blankets for the early-setting sun.The moon waxes, its orbital gainsgrace uswith a daytime glow.Winter whispers its arrival.
on wings and wonder
Sandstorm clouds hover high above the green and gracious valleys nestled between the righteous spines of mountains blessed with Nature’s orange and red undress. Leaves linger in autumn’s technicolor trance, celebrating their own death march with the warmth and gratitude of an unburdened winter. New life will rise from soil sown with the crinkled ashes … Continue reading on wings and wonder
Species of Value 