Balmy mist on snow;
Air is blue gray through the trees.
Insistent crow caws.

Brown patches appear;
The snow recedes for a while.
Howling in the woods.

Inside, t.v. glows;
Outside, sky is darkening;
Above, birds flurry.











Water slick on ice
Reflects dark shadows of trees--
Treacherous walking.

Neither rain nor snow,
Only dark threatening sky.
Careless cars race past.

The air grows lighter;
A patch of blue behind the trees
Breaking through the clouds.

Sprouting from the rock
Strong slender limbs of the tree
Grow persistently.












Growing together--
Trees like sister and brother;
Are they one or two?

Island in the woods;
No snow lies under the tree.
In the summer, shade.

Dark clouds under gray
Move steadily across the sky
Silhouetting trees.

Roaring from the woods
The wind bursts all around me;
Trees bend and bow.