Rain

Like eyes heavy with
grief, grey clouds spill a steady
patter of sorrow.

Facebook status after the breakup

“There’s always rain at
the most appropriate times
in my life,” he wrote.

Stiff spring breeze

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

Daylight savings spring ahead

Night pushed back, a dark
blanket kicked aside as the
sun stays wide awake.

Tapping maples

Stark trees hide flowing
sap like a dormant love that
awakens in spring.

Almost spring

Snowpack seems solid
but underneath, droplets sing
of melting caverns.

Fishbowl

Bored orange nibbles
away black’s filmy fins. Sad
stubs flail lost beauty.

Longest night of the year

Soon, darkness recedes.
But tonight I wrap myself
in velvet-starred black.

Driving kids to camp

Flat mapped names turn in-
to forested hills, roads wind
towards adventure.

Already mid-July

And so summer goes
like fishing line cast into
swift moving waters