Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Small pictures of spring: poems

2017 in Gulf Breeze, Florida (Gordon's yard)

pruning
azaleas . . . finding
one pink bloom
('12)
~~~

Decoration Day
his work-roughened hands
clean the pioneers tombstones
('97)
~~~

rainwater pollen yellow
('14)
~~~

A lone
coreopsis
rescued from a distant
bed, leans its yellow face into
the rain.
('14)
~~~

male cardinal
flashing in and out
of the lorapetalum
('15)
~~~

white-breasted squirrel
stands looking at the daisies
are they good to eat?
('13)
~~~

all this mid-May day
the doves across the way
calling . . . calling . . .
('13)
~~~

between camellias
and lorapetalum
the  stunted Shastas
('13)

Thurman Couch photo, '17

alone
but not lonely
me, the cat, the birds
('17)
~~~
~~~
c2017 PL bda lovepat press

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