
wolf
big, bad
huffing, puffing, blowing
loves pork, hates bricks
interloper

wolf
big, bad
huffing, puffing, blowing
loves pork, hates bricks
interloper

peaceful winter night
constellations of snowflakes
fall on the forest
–photo by me
A bold, cold-hearted wind
Slipped discreetly into town;
He was out to look for victims,
And he fast came swooping down,
But he ran into a snowdrift,
So curvaceous and fair,
That he caught her in his icy grip
And threw her in the air.
And ’round and ’round they whirled
In the closest kind of dance;
He had swept her off her feet
With his whirl-wind romance.
She hoped he’d never let her go,
She really thought he’d stay–
‘Til he dumped her on a rooftop,
Blew her off, and flew away.

–Getty Images

cosmos
banged her head and
now cannot recall her youth
she had to make cosmologists
to try to find the
truth

lost in the forest
on this frigid, frantic night–
a porchlight brings tears
with luck, I may never know
the true value of some things

nearing the hilltop
my shadow threatens to leap
into the blue sky
–photo by me

looking inward
there is only self
looking outward
there is only self
but in that abyss
between the two
man was created
and there the self
may become lost

babies
endearing, enraging
laughing, drinking, bawling
concentrated versions of ourselves
spawn

the little water bear
is the king of survival
with millions of years
since his species arrival
he can live in the desert
or on cold mountaintops
he can swim the deep sea
or the smallest of drops
he can go anywhere
he can live any place
from a volcanic mud
to the vacuum of space
like most other bears
there’s little he fears
he can hibernate too
for a hundred long years
he will outlive us all
for he has no true rival
this little water bear
is the king of survival

this morning the sun is so bright
that it’s flooding my household with light
but out in the snow
it’s still forty below
too bad it’s all bark and no bite