Blue winter morning
Still dark.  Two small chickadees
on a snow-covered branch

Cold winter river
Cormorant upholds his wings
Black on rock and ice

Cool summer's eve
Tucked snug beneath the blanket
Night wind kisses me

Blue mid-winter noon
Fat mallard nipping tails
Snow is here at last

Early summer's eve
Green ash leaves on blue sky and
seagulls wheeling 'round


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Early autumn mist
Elk steps from the forest edge
Pausing, majestic

Summer's end, tall pines
Hide blue heron as we search
Suddenly, he swoops!

Late fall, grey skies and
just enough snow on the road
to swirl and blow




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January storm
Refilling the birdfeeders
as trees are cracking

Perched at the feeder,
Blue Jay's feathers are ruffled
in the winter storm

I have jars of them
"Here's another one you'd like!"
More rocks from my dad

In early winter
River grey and freighters few
The ducks and I wait

sea smoke
suspended over ice
so cold

Full dark; late autumn
Lights flicker yellow and white
on Grand Traverse Bay


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Early morning light
River ice is breaking as
freighters blast greetings

Late winter at dusk
Blue-white puzzle pieces float
Mosaic in ice




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Puddles beneath snowbanks
Finally; spring



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Head down, I can still
Taste the tears on my desktop
All those years ago

Such different paths
And I; no longer needed
Grieve for my best friend

Late summer's night sky
Last blue and gold slides away
over black pine trees


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The river's frozen
I was only gone two weeks
So much can happen

Winter sleigh ride
Snowballs perched in sapling branches



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Clinging to rock cut;
Frozen waterfall



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Saturday morning
Wings tipped, now hung; suspended
Bush plane in the air



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amidst the weathered wood
a new barn door




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Three in the morning
Full moon bathes the yard and snow
Trees wait in silence




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Smoke here in the Sault
Yet to be seen but now smelled
Lifts prayers for Timmins


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Splintered grey with rusting roofs
Old barns in the fall

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Sun filtered through
grey clouds
Snow crunches underfoot



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Late summer
A red yew berry


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"Seldom Seen Road"
Passed each day




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warm breeze
a shower of apple blossoms

landing
the eagle
folds its wings

Float planes tethered
waiting for spring

On the subway
the children are brightest

drifting
                       drifting
drifting
                      drifting
ice floes in the river
slowly drifting

windows open
birdsong again

Snowflakes
                             sliding
                                               down
                                                                ­           the window
            First day of spring

last fall's leaf
mistaken for a butterfly

on old fieldstones
a new barn raising

tamaracks’ blaze

snow on the air


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early morning
the blueness
of snow

seagulls dive
racing the wind


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still waters
the loon slips below


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watching the blizzard
my windshield at warp speed


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motorcycles
on Queen Street
I hold
my star pose


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settling on the park bench
first snow


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scribbling across the sky
flock of geese


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swirling from branches
a dusting
of snow


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silhouettes on the field
sandhill cranes