February glumps and glooms.
Evergreens don snowy costumes.
Swansdown swirls in the frosty dawn,
and the wind’s song is woebegone.
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On a Cold and Frosty Morning
Category Archives: Memoir
In the Flow
memories flash,
silver fish in the shallows
river-cold then gone
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Layers of Light
clouds on Mount Greylock,
ever-changing layers of
dark and light
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Lonely in San Diego
lonely stretches
of shorn grass except high up,
birds
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Together by the Tree
out of the rain and snow,
laughing away long dark days
beside the tree
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Sunset in the Skies
Do you see the moon?
the moon, the mountains
the misty light at sunset,
is this why birds fly?
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Goldenrod After Rainfall
Mount Greylock, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
wringing out
a rain-soaked t-shirt,
my son smiles
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Rain over Mount Greylock
unescapable
dramatic tide of dark clouds,
the first drop falls
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Abandoned at the Railyard
still sidecars
no schedule or passengers,
just ghost conductors
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Tear Down This Wall
no matter how grand
every wall falls to wind, storm
and time
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Bridge over the River Fergus
grey stones strung with red,
the River Fergus ripples
with silent ghosts
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Speak to the Queen
my chin up
I’m focused on the future,
like a queen
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