pharaoh’s legacy / makes a circle / ants before spring

on February eaves / ice-spike water / holds silver sunlight

On February eaves / ice-spike water / is quicksilver sunlight

candy apple cheeks / her wind spawned tear tracks / fuel a snowman army

sunlight thaws / an ink-pot hole / flashes a goldfish

the kitchen faucet / a liquid metronome / leaking my life

icy rain / encases early blossoms / rippled cellophane dreams

icy rain / encases crocus blooms / rippled cellophane dreams

the cicadas sing / doors closing / doors closing

sideways snow / I wonder where / the refugees will land

unforeseen snow / my breath moves to meet / the magnolia blossoms

my fingers unfold slowly / over the morning fire / reluctant winter leaves

I wander the hills / morning clouds land soft and wet / holding off the spring

red dawn flows slowly / painting on the night black grass / a stillborn fawn

fat heavy rainfall / a drop-lollypop forest / for a childhood dance

twenty four hours / there will only ever be / twenty four hours

gusts roar between buildings / only the tipping people / make city wind real

first rays of morning sun / paint each dock post / a sleeping gull

in the cobalt twilight air / a mayfly gently floats / then a rocket-trout

old habits / ice-spike water / is quicksilver sunlight

naked they dance past / a sooty cauldron and fire / Witch are they?

old house-bones creaking / my furnace banishes / late winter habits

history detritus / obscures the seed meaning / the mother of it

mirror pond face / a westerly breeze inscribes / my daughter's nervous jitter