In each other's limbs:
Two slender entwined tree trunks;
A thin tree tango.

Gray and overcast
Thick sky is pregnant with snow;
Buckets clang in barn.








Mattress and a crutch
Together in the pickup:
Past sleep and past pain.

A tree trunk totem--
Cock-eyes look out on the road--
Nature's Picasso.












Bundled in her coat
She accompanies her dogs;
(Pooches must pee and poop).







Tree once rich with bugs,
Drilled by countless woodpeckers,
Now a mass of holes.

Knotholes stare blindly
Lips curled in a serene grin--
A smiling totem.

Bright red against green,
Above field of faded white--
Seasonal colors.