MAY 2019 -- ALL CREATURES SMALL

All Creatures Small 

Consider the snail . . .

House on his back, here or there,

Always at home.

Notice the earthworm . . .

Decomposing plant litter

Into garden gold.

Study ladybugs . . .

Keeping aphids at bay takes

Garden Amazons.

Enjoy the pill bug . . .  

Crustacean out of water,

Roly poly ball.

Savor the cricket . . .

Virtuoso of the fields

Night music for all.

APRIL 2019 -- Some Thoughts on the Coming of Spring

Snowpack melts

Waters rise

Turning fields

Into Swamps

Forcing farmers

To Delay

Spring planting

Until dry

All that winter white

Melted into springtime mud

Brings summer color

 

Savor the

Pouring

Rain

It invites

New

Growth

MARCH 2019 -- A FICKLE SHADOW

A FICKLE SHADOW

That pesky rodent got it wrong

He predicted an early spring

But all I see are fields of white

That aren’t in a rush to leave.

Roads and walkways still need clearing

While schools need more snow days  

And anyone who ventures out

Will want their long-johns on.

So dream, my friends, of warmer days

Until this cold spell snaps

And never again pin sunny hopes

On a rodent’s fickle shadow.