a raven in the canopy
watches as I pass
each to their own thoughts
/ / /
1 August 2022
State College PA
Category: Birds
a turkey vulture
plods across the sky
but doesn’t fall
/ / /
30 July 2022
State College PA
Tanglewood Evening
on the lawn our attention
drawn to one woman coughing
as the pianist plays
***
four low voices slip
across the manicured grass
a warbler enters from the trees
***
air heavy with citronella
the pop of a cork
during the applause
***
a lone student’s violent end
transformed into melody
all breaths are held
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Bastille Day
14 July 2022
Ozawa Hall lawn
Tanglewood
Lenox MA
I save my place
in a dead poet’s words
with a goose’s lost feather
/ / /
2 July 2022
Wahconah Falls State Park
Dalton MA
the sky is silent:
two loose feathers
on the back steps
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28 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
thirteen geese
one fisherman
& me
*
following a gull’s flight
around the edges of the lake
where is the center of the universe?
*
worm in mouth
a robin hops by; the wind
knocks over my bottle
*
moonset over the pines
the lone buoy
lists to the north
/ / /
20 June 2022
Pontoosuc Lake
Pittsfield MA
a yellow-crowned night heron
gives me side-eye
in Shakespeare Park
/ / /
11 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
sparrows in the trash
breeze moves the bushes
my towel is nearly dry
/ / /
24 May 2022
Pittsfield MA
wool blanket : zazen : mourning dove
/ / /
9 May 2022
Pittsfield MA
a Little Brown Bird
explores the trash
under the bushes
/ / /
23 April 2022
Pittsfield MA