A Not Quite Full Moon
Just After a Summer Sunset
Killdear and Frogs Call
Category: Birds
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Captured in His Gaze
Bluebird Echoes the Colors
Of Sky and Sunrise
See more on the Prairie Star Studios blog
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The Sound of the Wind
Tumbling Though the Tree Tops
And The Day’s Last LightThe Rising Chorus
Of Crickets From Just Beyond
The Reach of Porch LightsThe Feathered Whisper
Overhead as Silent Geese
Head Home Through The DarkThe Earth is Breathing
In and Out as We Count Days
And Years, Bits and BytesThe Earth is Breathing
In and Out, Inviting Us
Along, In and Out -
Through Storms End, Deep Snow,
To A Warm Spring That Runs Clear
All Through the WinterA Quacking, Flapping
Urgency of Ducks rises, flees.
The Red-Tailed Hawk StaysHe Makes Eye Contact
A Glance Over His Shoulder
And Tail Feathers ShakeHe Raises His Wings
As If Stretching and Rises,
Floating Into AirEffortless, He Glides
By, Holding My Eye, Watching
Silent, Moving, StillOne Circle, Then Two
I am appraised. He is not
Afraid or ImpressedSo He Turns His Head
And Slides Away, Mystery
Above the Deep Snow -
For Michele, On Her Birthday
About Now, Each Year,
Snow Packs Down to Greyest Ice
It Says “Late Winter”But I am Thinking
Early Spring, Listening for
The Crane’s First CallingSeeking the First Buds
On Bare Tree Limbs, and All the
Day’s Green Potential -
Her Owl’s Wings Stir the
Magic in Summer Nights and
Our Slumbering Hearts
See the story of the making of “Take Flight” on Juliette Crane’s blog
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Between You and I
An Ambiguous Forest
A Moment of Flight
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Two owls perched, clear eyed
And quietly comfortable
Paired as thine and thou
A Year in Haiku 