Early daffodils

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

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.

Christmas LED lights

Like laser pointers
they blind in red green blue as
they save the planet

Christmas cards

Photos we look bad
in. Braggy newsletter. That’s
how we keep in touch.

Longest night of the year

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

Snow in March

Hats, gloves, put away
in optimism return
for winter’s last gasp.

Morning in midtown Manhattan

In the skyscraper
canyons, light outlines moving
shapes sipping Starbucks.

only blog can make a tree

a dilemma of
riches in tiny topaz
the art of language

Spring in the air

Mud has a smell that’s
like waking up to coffee.
You know you’re alive.