Morning Glory

light and shadow
floating mountains
morning glory
on golden fall



Picture: Kananaskis Range, personal collection

Amaneciendo

Amaneciendo

He draws back the curtain

across a wakening sky

Earth curves the arch of her back

stretches arms of light

to take up the baton of morning

conducts the deliquescence of night

from indigo to amaranth bloom

while I absorb in awe and silence
embraced by a higher love

The Way to Work

Five magpies
hold a board meeting
black and white rules
bosses all

Black and blue bins
full of themselves
refuse and reuse
march two by two
to the curb

Can you smell the peach
compote in the pink morning
or is it over-ripe apples
as they lose their grip and fall?

Green blades gather on golf links
freeze at the frosty command
of the cold killer
yellow bellied leaves tremble
fall faint to the ground

I walk with a long shadow
urge October to throw coal on the sun
wait for winter's white wonder
dream of a Christmas beach