Osprey
Osprey, white angel spearing fish…
Read MoreThe world lets me in
Sometimes, if I’m very still, if my fingers
stop fidgeting and my mind cools…
I wish to trust
I wish to trust, like the wren trusts the sunrise…
Read MoreThe conservation of daisy
I refuse to mourn the death of a daisy…
Read MoreHow things get done
The tide comes in, the tide goes out..
Read MoreProcess
We planted walnut saplings…
Read MoreThus our stories collide
Every summer grasshoppers enter our screened porch and die…
Read MoreThe Wisechuck
I’m pleased to report the woodchuck is back…
Read MoreFind a universe
Sometimes when I climb the hill back home…
Read MoreGrasping
Grasping for a firm future, ignoring the solid ground of today.
Read MoreWeb
As I wait, the blur of thought fades…
Read MoreWisest of plants
The daisy, wisest of plants…
Read MoreOpen
Only open hands, wide eyes and soft faces let the world in.
Read MoreAnd yet
You and me…
Read MoreFlapping, forgetting
Flapping my arms. Forgetting my parachute
Read MoreCircuit breaker
When there are too many inputs and the wires are running hot…
Read MoreBored
Yes, you can do it, push through it…
Read MoreOn being a tree
Is this tree, which stands outside
my window, happy?
Now I am rich
This morning I woke and saw the sun had placed diamonds on each blade of grass…
Read MoreSame
The light that reflects so sharply…
Read MoreWren
I was still enough to hear the sound of the wren…
Read MoreI will get lost
I will go walking amid the fragrant grasses…
Read MoreBudding and dying
And then we have nature…
Read MoreThe world in a square foot of ground
Why leave when there’s a city…
Read MoreThe flower of a strawberry
Have you ever looked at the flower of a strawberry…
Read MoreAnd it was enough
This morning I woke and saw the tree…
Read MoreAll from the same
That flower, this soil, our bird, your pond…
Read MoreLet settle
I will return…
Read MoreIf I don’t smile
All this stuff and status is for nothing…
Read MoreInside where
In stillness I journey inside…
Read MoreThe river
The river flows from the mountains to the sea…
Read MoreThat part of
It is enough to love the flower
of the sarsparilla or the strawberry…
Same Sun
We fight for money and oil and a parking space yet we forget
the same Sun also rises on Mars.
It’s there
It’s there beneath everything…
Read MoreAfter forgetfulness
When the world is intent on forgetfulness…
Read MoreFrom earth…
Here I am, sitting on my plastic
Muskoka chair…
There is our moment
Between the eternal water and the eternal sky, there is our moment.
Read MoreOf me
The grassy hillside is dotted with new maples…
Read MoreThe vital things
Perhaps now is the moment to drop what we call important…
Read MoreSurprise
The moment when reality breaks through the skin and bumps into the heart…
Read MoreThe most true things
I’d like to describe the blossom as I reach the house but the reality is…
Read MoreThe rest was distraction
The most important thing I did today was notice how green the grass is when the sun shines. The rest was distraction.
Read MoreThe baby maple
There’s something lovely about the baby maple in the driveway gravel.
Read MoreMy place among you
I close the door behind me and descend into your world…
Read MoreReturn to love
How can I fail to fall back in love…
Read MoreRemembering the still dawns
Remembering the still dawns with their flat lakes and sturdy trees…
Read MoreSteering wheel
My drive home is improved…
Read MoreThere is nothing now but sparrow
One evening, my mind full of stuff, compressed, buzzing, hot, I step outside and hear the sparrow…
Read MoreA woodpecker once told me
A woodpecker once told me…
Read MoreButtercup
I will wade ankle-deep into the squashy boggy lands…
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