yule poems

i)

ragged notebook on garage floor

inches from melted snow puddle

front cover loose and torn

taped back on

new poems today

ii)

the night before

the night before Christmas

promise of snow...

just slashing white sleet

iii)

twin orphan fauns

walk the fence line

up the frozen hill

into the cedars

two scenes

"news" thick with doom

algorithms of  filthy lucre...death

"social" media swipes

skits on a tiny screen

pulling your gaze deep

woodland walk

a rugged trail between 

icy cornfields and a rocky ridge

out deep with the deer, 

the pheasants, the quails

early winter

crimson flurry

a whirling flapping burst of red

two male cardinals

scattering the grey chickadees

and pretty slate juncos

seeds fly 

fall from the feeder

squirrel bounds

over fresh snow

to feast