Deepening glory – Sunflower from the funeral of a great man

The death of the field mouse – Prose poem

the death of the field mouse
came in a field of sorts
a back yard in the city
overgrown, strewn with the withering
detritus of the fall

there, dragging the limp
ribbon of a leg
impossibly thin, skin
covering delicate vasculature
and bones, flattened from the crush
of spring-loaded steel,
only thinly missing delivering
a death in the house

there he was shivering
the thin, tremulous ears
transparent, the black
unreadable dots of his eyes
with tiniest of catch lights
catching the grey morning

there he shuffled slowly
under the filigreed shroud of the leaves
unseeing the fall of the brick

Sunset and Contrails – Sioux Power Plant – Mississippi River Ice

Mississippi River Ice II – Clifton Terrace – Alton Lake – Illinois

Zeitgeist – Downtown Alton – Wedge Bank, Clark Bridge, Jacoby Furniture / Arts Center, ConAgra Mill

“bright birds in a cage” – Nursing home haiku

bright birds in a cage
flitter and tweet; she tip-toes
her wheelchair to hear
_________

bright birds in a cage
oblivious tweet…freedom;
nursing home evening

“fix bacon, eggs, tea” – Haiku for my brother

fix bacon, eggs, tea,
this joy into your heart; my
brother in my house

“caravans of clouds” & “at dusk the clouds roll” – Sunset haiku

caravans of clouds
roll eastward; the sun slipping
down into clear blue
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at dusk the clouds roll
by like caravans; the moon
a still sentinel

The Moon in the Trees at Dusk – Tower Grove Park – St. Louis

Tower Grove Fountain in Ice – Day and Night – St. Louis