1.0
Packing the car
2.0
While driving
I hear the author’s words
in her voice
3.0
Seagulls soaring
in the wind
over
semi trucks
over
seagulls soaring
in the wind
4.0
Along the river
closer on Highway 14
than I-84
To Biggs Junction, #101
spring
Love-in-a-mist, #100
Looking… she pauses
at the edge of the driveway
in the morning rain
Left, Right, #99
Cavernous Weathering, #98
Light in pinhole gaps
water and winds swirl and seep
carving stone shadows
No Rain, Water, #97
1.0
Once frothy white noise
today cracking dry whitecaps
drifting clouds no rain
2.0
Fading green patches
dry grasses stretch across fields
not yet summertime
3.0
Shaped by the water,
grounded and smoothed, dry river
under my bare feet
Spring Valley, #96
1.
When he took me, the two-track was hardly visible. The grass was bending over the hood, as high as the windows of the Rambler. The shore was a rich dark brown scattered with white stones.
When I took her, the grasses were short and faded covered in dust from the gravel road. On our walk down the trail 1 collect discarded bottles, cans, wrappers, and bait containers, putting them a the bag that once held our sandwiches. The shore is ground to a fine dust.
Quiet.
“Pop,” the opening of a can echoes, loud voices follow.
She turns and says, “It’s okay Pops.”
Glassy lake surface
Splash! fish clutched-Osprey talons
Glassy lake surface
2.
3.
Waking from a daze
dreamt I was a soaring bird
as I fly away
6th and Elm, #95
Through the cracks-
green sprouts in the heart
of this old skin suit
Mid May – Spring Flowers and Blooms, #94
And there are more flowers and blooms; There is the fragrance of deer and foxes, morning birdsong, and the buzzing of bees.
1.
Sometime in the night
stuck! On an invisible path-
hanging by a thread
2.
Frosted Lupine
in the camera window-
the Milky Way!
3.
Did the startled fox
pause for a moment passing
the Triplet Lily?
4.
Pink and white abuzz-
dance between Crabapple blooms
vibrating fragrance
5.
Today I’ll plant more flowers.
From the shore, #93
In the poppy’s womb
petals of salmon splashing
fragrant waves of green
Paradise Creek Bridge, #92
Breeze above the creek
in the many footsteps’ shade
-dandelion blooms