Ken Wagner

05-30-24

grass recovers
the train tracks

Deer pause
Tall still
grass

Deer pause
Breeze through the
tall grass

Those ribs
A wasting
cow waits

A snail hardens
in morning light
Birdsong

After the car wash
Pinch pruning
the spring hydrangeas

Seventy-nine degrees
on Hallowe’en
Browned leaves fall

The shepherd sleeps
under a night sky
His border collie stirs

Cold presses
dull on my fingers
Morning light

Fall breeze
By your side
at first light

Heavy snow
Light from behind
the frosted window