Monday, March 18, 2024

New Moon

 











The Farmer's Almanac tell us to plant
When the moon is new
Water the seeds with your spontaneous tears
Pray for the merciful sunlight
Know that insects burrow from below
And birds watch for the fruit
Rabbits and deer will nibble
And new shoots will emerge from the snow
Long after, when you've almost forgotten
You'll look up at the full golden moon
Amid her billowing skirts of clouds
And remember to harvest.


Sunday, November 19, 2023

Holding Pattern













Myriad designs appear

        shifting,

Impossible to predict,

        their scope or temperature,

            mood or longevity.

How capricious

        our elusive, ephemeral life.

That much we 

        can depend on.




Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Burning Questions









Can we be friends?
Can we survive?
Can we agree?
Can we believe and disbelieve
And still agree
And still be friends
And still survive?

The thread between
You (the big you) and
Me (the whole me)
Feels strong and insubstantial,
Like the air we breathe,
The inscrutable sea.

Smoke drifts down from Canada,
Refugees from Kiev,
Great white sharks upon our shores,
Arctic curlews leave.
I dream of flooded floors
In a second story home.

When the smell of fire
Decorates the yellow sky,
These uninvited facts
Creep in and multiply.
I wake and rub my eyes
While the birds cry.