Wilderness Interface Zone

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Spring elegance.

(after reading “Deer in the City” by Patricia Karamesines)
Deer rise up from the page
Like the walls of stone houses from the Mesa
As we top a rise on our drive across the Mesa
A few years after fire drove across
Uncovering new pots, new sites
The stone houses uncovered old memory
Older than the 40-odd years I have longed for [...]

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Spring casts lots of thin shadows; summer lays down clouds of shade.

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By my son Saul.  Love this picture.

Through the window, peaks,
Which to me indoors reveal
The gradient climb ahead.
Stretched muscle fibers
And in my mind, firmness found,
A peak’s vision forth.
But I stand from within an imbedded circle,
And just as sure as the front lawn sidewalks,
So do the ideals of the circle.
From the center to primavera’s fields
The ideals fruition could perpetuate,
But between, the concrete drowns,
Are [...]

In spring
God seizes winter earth
and swings her upside down
she laughs
till blossoms tumble
from her pockets
like pennies
enough to purchase
one more ticket
another turn
at this graceless ballet
another dawn.
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To read Carla’s bio and more of her poetry go here, here, here, and here.
*contest entry*

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Pollinator’s-eye view.

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Orchids have stunning throats.  Thank you, Carla.

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This one prompts physical reactions in me, spine and belly.