
yellow & purple
pansies draw butterflies,
bees, & photogs.

yellow & purple
pansies draw butterflies,
bees, & photogs.


When do you feel most productive?
When the internet is down.

a night heron,
up & about at sunrise,
like diehard revellers.



home to birds & squirrels,
the tree holds life in every
crotch & hollow.
Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine --
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
Ah, dream to bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from the Future cries,
"On! on!" -- but o'er the Past
(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
Mute, motionless, aghast!
For, alas! alas! with me
The light of Life is o'er!
No more -- no more -- no more --
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams --
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.

ducks in a pond
drift through the algae,
their track, self-healing.




a pristine blossom falls,
tumbling through grime & grit
but still unsoiled.