Category: poetry

leaves

ratty, lumpy shag rugs
of dead leaves cover the ground
of memories

silkiness melting
sun baking
the creamy light deepening

we’re the wind
roaring through raggedy trees
on a wild november day

a fish doesn’t exist
outside of brown leaves drifting
over the pavement

climbing out of the lapping waves
up the rocks
making the breakwater

a piece of smooth grey driftwood
draws eyes into
a sinuous body

five a.m.
patter of skittering squirrels on the roof
above me

a small grey-backed shark lay dead
white belly up
on the mottled gravel

in the late morning
the roaring warring lawn mowers
and leaf blowers

the sharp round too-wheet
the prick of the chirp
the heavy cut of the bark