Restless breeze / parts the grass in zigzags / like startled rabbits

Bright spring moon / makes birds neglect their dreams / to sit up, singing

Moon gazing / mind too busy / for poems

Last night's restless dream / moon's teeth sinking deep, bruising / marking me his own

Tugs at my hair / slaps my cheeks, lifts my skirt / Wind's such a tease!

Dawn chorus / no rhythm, not much bass / I dance anyway

Kestrel's hunting cry / for one wistful moment / I am a mouse

"Breathe me," / wind invites / I do

Wildfire season / scent of sagebrush and mesquite / not yet, but it comes

In the hush / between cars roaring past / lovelorn toads trill

Impatient verdins / steal threads from the spider's web / even as she weaves

Briefly full / arroyo does not care / who drinks, who does not

Aching / this empty cup / to be sipped

Irrepressible / sun shrugs off her white silk robe / and spends the day nude

Catbird / wittering on merrily / about nothing

The sun scarce risen / Summertime hardly begun / Air shimmers with heat

Dawn blushes crimson / Smiling moon tells her secrets / only Night should know

White peonies / planted before she died / blooming anyway

Pearl-white sake / Peony blooms in my glass / and on my tongue

Slow simmer / boils over / when pot's untended

Eavesdropping / on the wind telling tall tales / to the laurel trees

Blackberry season / I breakfast with sparrows / among the thorns

Heliotrope / my gaze follows the sun / willingly dazzled

Hypnotic blue / I open myself slowly / to imagined skies

Dawn's empty garden / golden-throated lilies wait / thirsty for the rain

Heaven on earth / shard of mirror in the dust / reflects the clear sky

Low-slung sarong / the day's long heat / shimmering