Locomotive
pushes through fog
Daybreak
Locomotive
pauses in fog
Cigarette
Locomotive
pushes through fog
Daybreak
Locomotive
pauses in fog
Cigarette
Wolf missed
the deer and noticed me
Scent of your neck
Blue sky curves
over my city
Palms upward
Hands wrapped
around my warm coffee mug
Remembering
The cold on my face
wakens and widens
Sky
Morning walk
Streetlight, cold, distant sound
of a car
Morning walk
Streetlight, cold, darkened
faces
Morning walk
Streetlight, cold, no one
ever waves
A year begins –
Cobblestones line
the icy streets
That deep spring snow
ten years ago
We stumble and fall
pushing through
the deep snow
Two trees that bend
then descend
into white drifts
I rise and push on
Slow thaw,
sunrise after sunrise,
snow on patches of grass
Spring sprouts here
sprouts there
Doorway swings
the shack; I’m gone
and yet I’m back
Offering
knock-knock jokes
to the thunder and sky
Waiting
for some reply
Out of the office
Blackberries blaze
in the sun
Coyote howl
The trees surround
this silence
She’s gone
For Tabatha