Category: Birds

• Birds Distance Moon Morning Sunrise

  
  Floating Crescent moon
  Watches the geese migrate North
  Calling up the sun
  

  March 12, 2010
• Birds Clouds sunlight

  
  Wind sweeps crows, clouds, and
  Shafts of sunlight like spotlights
  Across the water
  

  February 9, 2010
• Birds Morning Music Spring

  
  I dreamt of springtime.
  As I wake, the room echoes
  With song bird’s music.
  

  February 2, 2010
• Birds Snow winter

  
  After the blizzard
  Wedding white edges all the world
  And hides calling crows
  

  December 10, 2009
• Birds Snow

  
  First snow, almost shy,
  Meanders between sky and
  Earth. Crow calls echo.
  

  December 3, 2009
• Birds Music Sunrise

  
  Just out my back gate
  The neighborhood savors dawn
  And a birds’ chorus
  

  November 28, 2009
• Autumn Birds Sky

  
  Late fall’s full palate
  Cardinals, jays, crows, red tailed hawks,
  Cold and clear, blue skies
  

  November 27, 2009
• Autumn Birds Moon Night With Juliette Crane

  
  Autumn moon reaching
  Crescent arms past Owl’s song to
  Solitary star
  

  November 23, 2009
• Autumn Birds

  
  Already, before
  The first frost, Goldfinches have
  Dimmed their bright feathers
  

  September 28, 2009
• Birds

  
  Chitter, pop, and call
  Limb to limb and lawn to lawn
  Flows the blackbird flood
  

  September 6, 2009
• Birds

  
  A blackbird army
  Marches through the neighborhood
  Busby heads shining
  

  September 6, 2009
• Birds Music Sunrise

  
  Apricot mists rise
  From the sleeping neighborhoods
  As birds sing sunrise
  

  September 4, 2009
• Birds Dance Distance Motorcycle Music

  
  Got white line rhythm
  With motorcycle dancing
  Beneath floating hawks
  

  September 1, 2009
• Birds Morning Sky Storms

  
  Storm clouds racing East
  At first light, chased by blue sky
  And a bird’s chorus
  

  July 15, 2009
• Birds Storms Summer

  
  Trees and Crows dancing.
  Rollercoastering the wind
  From summer thunder storms
  

  July 10, 2009
• Birds Home Sun

  
  Sunny Saturday
  A backyard opera of
  Birds, Breeze, and City
  

  May 30, 2009
• Birds Sunrise

  
  Five A.M. Already
  Birds have urgent opinions
  On the coming day
  

  May 5, 2009
• Birds Sunrise

  
  I’m just waking up
  To birds calling up the sun,
  Counting syllables
  

  April 24, 2009
• Birds Morning

  
  Just before sunrise
  Dense layers of bird chatter
  Call me to the day
  

  April 18, 2009
• Birds

  
  Crows eating pizza
  From my garbage and laughing
  At life one more day
  

  April 14, 2009
• Birds

  
  I’m turning fifty
  Sung to by city and birds
  As I cross the porch
  

  March 25, 2009
• Birds Sunrise winter

  
  March, endless winter
  The crows calling at sunrise
  Edgy impatience

  March 2, 2009
• Birds Rural Snow winter

  
  Farm fields in still life
  Golden stubble, black dirt, snow
  And hawk, hovering
  

  February 18, 2009
• Birds Snow Water

  
  A sudden river
  The sidewalk’s melting snow banks
  Sparrow’s springtime bath
  

  February 12, 2009
• Birds Morning

  
  Calling mourning doves
  Close by, then distant echo,
  Minor key morning
  

  February 11, 2009