Pick a bird you’d like to be
Heron, eagle, hummingbird
Daring, large, fast, gaudy,

Or camouflaged,
a small brown forager
spiraling a tree.

Tending to bark and larvae.

Ruth Solnit, February 2021

If you were a fireweed
and your bright
pink petals
had fallen,
Your fluffy seeds
would still
have flights
ahead.

Ruth Solnit September 5, 2020

Today only their edges show.
A feather, a foot, a flash of orange,
stirring leaves left on the big madrona,
playing hide-and-seek,
suddenly exotic.

Ruth Solnit November 2020

Life in the smallest pond
can still give a thrill,
skating on top of
shiny beauty.

Ruth P Solnit, September 2020