Windy night

Outside the wind chimes
plead, usually placid
notes wrenching, piercing.

 

January thaw

Sodden ground swampy
a mash of leaves, plants, flowers
once distinct, now soup.

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Winter sun

Summer is golden
butterscotch, January
skim milk, thin weak pale.

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Overlooked

Forgotten summer
umbrella aged by winter’s
wig of heavy snow.

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Buckingham Fountain

What naiad dances
in your pulsing, surging heart,
calling me to her?

Stiff spring breeze

Tightly furled like clenched
fists, tentative red-tipped buds
sway on bare branches.

Early daffodils

Like green periscopes
tiny shoots peer from muddy
beds searching for sun.