Deep In the Forest
Lake Michigan is Revealed
By Her Surf’s Soft Song
Category: Water
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Dusky Purple Rock
River Smoothed Layers A Clock
Marking Glacial Time
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This Flowing Water
And Standing Rock, Unchanging
Yet Never the Same
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Even on the Shore
The Fishing Boat Still Recalls
The Storm Tossed Waters
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So Cold It’s Almost
Frozen, But the River Leaps to
Celebrate Motion -
As if Opposites
Attract, Nature Paints in Contrasts
Pulling in Our Gaze
Freeze and Flow Winter
To Spring, Then Summer and Fall,
The Rolling Seasons
The Light and Shadow
Of Every Passing Moment
Still Life in Motion
And We Cannot Look
Away, As One Thing Becomes
Another and Returns
Rock and Water, Earth
And Air, Nature Sings Harmony
And we are Transformed -
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 -
A Buffalo’s Gaze,
Warming the Morning River
As Autumn Comes On
A Year in Haiku 