upon walking in a library, after keats

gleaned from teeming brains
these characteries, silent,
sink to nothingness

-source “When I have fears that I may cease to be” by John Keats

Tree and Leaf

on antiques roadshow

on antiques roadshow
smiles and eyebrows speak; heirlooms
on an auction block

Upon these we bestow more abundant honour II

Crown II

Crown

Redbudding

spring springs from places

spring springs from places
dark and dormant; summer, fall
pressed into black loam

A Gift from the Day

Windblown