My Resurrection

Sunrise cracks the gloom

Sweaty restlessness of night

My resurrection

Beach in Cotuit, MA

Dried sweet-salty skin

                                           

The ocean’s staccato roar

Sandy sandwiches

In a Nearby Woods

Low against the chill

Spring’s carpet of violets

'Spels my winter gloom

After a Sam Messiter Poem

Gone the goldenrod

Chill winds swirl the russet leaves

'Til the daffodils

Carolina Mountains

To the rain betrothed 

The bluff sheds her ecru shift

Down to blue-gray rock

At My Grandparents' Home

Wap, wap, wap, wap, wap

                                    

Goodyears spanking yellow bricks

Keeping me asleep

Waterfall Near Scranton, PA

The cascade’s cool spray

Livens the day as its roar

Stills morosity

Audubon's Last Words

John James Audubon

“Let us get our guns

Will, and go down to the pond

And shoot us some ducks."

Wellesley Sunday

Church bells clear my head 

Coffee with a splash of grace

Still, sweet Sunday morn

Great Smokey Mountains

Hills roll toward the dawn 

Fog fills their smokey hollows

For generations

In Newville, PA

Lighting strikes nearby

                    

I leave my tractor and hug

The plow-field stubble

Rock Wall in Rhode Island

Orange rock-tied lichens

Marriage of necessity

Spongy interlock

In Alaska

Split like a cheesecake
                      

Glaciers scour the valley

Raisin rocks in tow

Cardinals

She clad in mufti

Her soldier, in blazing red

Loving cardinals

Sakonnet

The honking gray geese

Flying in a morphing vee

Appear o'er the trees

War of the Sexes

The wind warns the sea

                                         

"Don't dis femininity"

By spanking his waves

My Tree Fort

Scrap-lumber aerie

My childhood escape from and

To my life ahead

Stonewall Jackson’s Last Words

“Let us cross over

                                                   

The river and rest in the

Shade of the trees, boys.”

Above Palm Springs

In my hike’s clearing

An eagle swoops to talon

Me, mistaken prey

The Sneeze

A sinus tickle

Abrupt nasal paroxysm

A haiku achoo