Midwest

red silk,
orange silk, in tassels,
  on the corn -- 

a rainy Midwest morning
 casts muted shades of gray

*more* corn - look, a rabbit!

`two gluttonous squirrels,
waiting their turn, wary and fat --
last of the corn harvest

Hollyhocks

morning clouds --
some day, she tells herself,
she'll have her Hollyhocks, too

... long nights

have you ever noticed
4 o' clock in the morning
is the middle of the night?


all of our nights are long now
since the Solstice moon

Sonny Boy

4 o'clock in the morning -
Sonny Boy explains
the sound of the trains

Monday

 

 

 

 

morning glories -
a cup of yogurt like a pill

 

 

patches of fog -
can't sip my coffee on the S-curve





these tall buildings rise in the dark -
the geese depart all in a row





red leaves, yellow leaves, brittle all through -
warnings for frost in the Arrowhead