Entries Tagged as 'Natural Nuances'

Cauled Barn Owl

A worry of scurry
shadow scramble
in bitter brambles
game of dark tag

Whoop of hoot
swift slanted scoop
where skitters and twitters
are food chain fodder

slanted rant
nation of cantation
swivel-headed seeing
whiskered wish gnawed

giving     receiving
timeless seething
cutting night
for talon grasp

a sudden gasp
beaky rasp
owlets reel
in nesty need

Bare-Bellied

Crow-flicked glacier slithering off soul’s carcass
disembowled mother, bony skeleton
uncovered by hated heat of another global warming

night comes to cover her, cool fevered brow
ancestors rush in rainbow shawls to mourn.

Yokey Universe

Old lady gathered brown eggs from loosely woven nest,
hen cautioning her, should she take too many,
handle them roughly.  Drawing up her apron,
she made another near cradle.

Latching hexagon wired gate, to brace enclosure,
she hurried to a small box and nestled them
under a warming light, sure she had adopted them well.

Cat, hiding in shadows of boots and gloves,
of darkened incubation front entry,
feigned disinterest, waited for first crack.

Persuasive Palettes

What wakens green, wrestling with their writhe

I think I know what whispers to them

dip and flutter, soft springish wings

humming colors awash with hue
kissing stem to bud and bloom

delirious desire to emulate

fluttering faithful filaments

Heated Hearth of Healing

birdsong dry days
bald-headed cactus sweltering
in brittle bits of sand
where shade eludes scuttling things
searching for a damp place to be

sage sky simmers
over places man will not walk
but to collect medicine
for another heat
on the forehead of a child

leathery leaves turn hard faces
to boney-brindled cattle
and rough-ribbed horses
stumbling hot-brained
around twirling tumbleweed

a wrinkled hand drops tobacco
at hairy roots and offers a song
about water and gratitude
for even a desert
that can hold healing
in a gray un-needy clutch