Thirty

I turn the smooth grey stone over in my hand
Like pages in a story

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Purple lilacs blooming

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His fenders drawn out
An osprey hovers
Then plummets like a stone.

GL, 5/30/2011. Prevail.

Twenty-five

Grey, green, blue and light
Folded together
With a painter’s palette knife

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Water whispers and swirls
Approaches the bank, hesitating
Before continuing across the pond.

GL, 5/25/2011. Prevail.

Eighteen

The great blue heron
Launches himself over grey ridges
His feathers like fingers brushing the spines of books.

GL, 5/18/2011. Prevail.

Sixteen

Ripples pursue each other
On the Sun lit surface
In a wild Tag, You’re It! game.

GL, 5/16/2011. Prevail.

May 11

Barely visible
The folded letter’s white corner
Inside its thick envelope.

GL, 5/11/2011. Prevail.

May 7

Eyebrows
A thick comma
above green eyes.

GL, 5/7/2011. Prevail.

First Bird 3

The Year of the Black-Capped Chickadee


Two Owlets

GL, 5/3/2011. Prevail.