Ken Wagner

05-19-20

Only air and gas
at the roadside station
We drive on

Coronavirus
left no fingerprints
Deceptive politics

Coronavirus
left no fingerprints
Obsessive hand washing

Bicycle leans
on the woodpile
Moonlight tryst

Tulips
peel open
Morning prayers

Cool water
Walking the beach
in our sneakers

Flowering field
The hog farm
processing plant

Empty church
Bent bluebells
blowing

Clear moon
A tremor on her
sleeping face

Birdsong
Four hatchling mouths
opened upward

Tiger emerges
from the darkness
The smell of hot cinnamon