scorpion corpse
sitting atop a wall
why die there?
vultures circle
i give them wide berth
they’ve yet to choose
ant-swarmed mantis
i thought you a leaf
do the ants know?
fresh flowers
mossy flush-set headstone
unseen, not lost
the potter’s field
out near the back fence
closer to the world
day moon
subdued but looming
soon gone
sliver moon
crescent vanishing
hanging lure
mountain moon
lighting valleys
show my trail
shadowless
til milky moonlight
spills the clouds
nitid moon
you must’ve been resplendent
but I slept
moonlight
so bright silence
can’t be heard
azure sky
one puffy cloud
dances through
Andean night
the pinpoints I knew
a smear of color
Himalaya
so close that heaven
reveals its color
low gray clouds
leaf chaos unleashed
smell of rain
glow ripples
breakers by moonlight
time misbehaves
frog croaks
not a glistening back
fixing location
darkness falls
a bat diaspora
to dinner buzz
early dark fall
paired with a drizzle
a sad walk home
a tree twists
or so it seemed by night
breeze and shadow?
pounding drums
echo down the valley
birds calm
deep breath
fog dissipates
common peril
fog follows
will it catch us
before the pass
cow grazes
on the high trail
dispiriting
glaciers glow
in sunrise orange
forge iron, not
on the ridge
falls can be lethal
worth it
barren branches
rake the sky above
tines chaotic
crow turns head
aiming its lustrous eye
pausing mid-meal
snowy silence
ends in flapping wings
then returns
cornstalk stubble
dusted in dry snow
desiccated
breath tendrils
roil into limbo
forgotten
water flows
under stark skies
to open seas
exiles flee
train eating track
one way
late monsoon
winter gray skies
thick & low
pink blooms
hold through the cold
dogged bind
silent rites
acted out now
later lost
breathe & sway
bath in forest air
samara rain
sniffing mouse
waggles its sniffing nose
turns & retreats
cheep-cheep
baby bird calling
no answer
steaming coffee
lazy tendrils
curl idly
overcast
Prague skies above
faux winter
hawk’s spiral swoop
snatches a sack skyward
morsels spilling
crow tugs rat carcass
like a combat comrade
cursing pal’s flab
Maribu meeting
looks formal: coat and tie
civil as Congress
