Garden News, Aug 2011

I can hear the traffic
from my back door:

click-clicks from hummingbirds in the leaves,
wasps, bumblers, jellowjackets and honeybees

10,000 gnats
and a dozen dragonflies
- dinosaurs of the skies

breezes

currents

I can hear the traffic
from my back door,

and the traffic count
is high today.

Birds in Winter

baby birds grown,
nests exposed, and
summer's lessons tested

first snow flakes
fall slushily
on crispy maple leaves

tree architecture, naked
shows the still life
of birds in winter