Poem Category: Miscellaneous

before dusk
a quick green wind
shows the underparts of trees

cramming
the streams with winter
the hungry ice

sick friend’s back yard
so much of the wind
thrashing shadows

squinting at the pond
the dragonfly’s wings
cellophane with light

how composing
is the garden Buddha
cloaked in moonshine

the widower’s sports car
he waxes weekly…
the last one

autumn leaves burning
we play hide and seek
in grand-pop’s garden

jazz album
letting the vinyl track
past midnight

building a snowman
our neighbour’s clarinet
beneath the quiet

of smells re-called
grandpop’s raked and burning
piles of leaves