boil order extended what's february like in cancun

lingering winter the turkey between the stripes of a fence's shadow

ground freeze the political grandstanding of the gop censures

in every depression the endless white of blank spaces

2nd acquittal each new band of snow deeper than the last one

so this is valentine's day

valentine's day 2021 another low another record broken

valentine's day blizzard the frozen tears on his mask

valetine's day the deer antlers sticking out of the snow

hearts on iron fences a reminder it's valentine's day

wind chill below zero it's valentine's day

a pond you can walk across it's valentine's day

trumpism alive and well it's valentine's day

the absence of birdsong on valentine's day

miles from home the sandhill cranes refueling in a farmer's field

a veil of mist reshapes the canyon

morning coffee some flower dust on a honeybee

notes of sunshine the seconds trilled away by birdsong

aquarium a young boy's laugh finding the clownfish

the red lichens with their own language scrawled across the rocks

I catch my breath on a steep hill--the gumbo lily

fern green the lushness surrounding the waterfall

hands of a climber the rolling hills before the mountains

tanawha sunrise the hawk's profile

first snow the cat runs back into the house

this winter a siskin's moment with the goldfinches

haiku inspired by my journal and a 2021 nature calendar 

moving on if only we were more like water every time we fell

wolf moon coyotes howling somewhere in the distance

prairie burn the short-eared owl perches on a charred cedar

cave entrance we only go as far as the sunlight will take us

longer days a pair of goldfinches just passing by

spring peepers no way to adjust the volume of their chorus

swollen feet the many reflections of tupelo

cattle egret in the middle of the day both of us at a standstill

red, yellow, orange the indian paintbrush with an autumn palette

the water boatman ferries itself across the pond

cedar apple rust creating its own type of bloom

buckeye butterfly we share a moment on the sandbar

blazing star quenching my thirst for color

frost extends the borders of a red oak leaf

glade reverie in each ladder of success another flower

a grayness follows the farm plow bonaparte's gull

the sugar maples already dressed for winter

Inspired by Natural Events Calendar 2002