When a tulip "breaks"
The petals develop streaks
Broken is lovely.

Yeah yeah yeah I know
April shower May flowers
Rolls eyes and shivers

When springtime comes late
Every blossom is precious
Peeking through the green

A spring clean up day:
Sent a lot of memories
Off with the tinker

Another cold day
Digging in the bright sunshine
It's a good fatigue

It just took the dog
a half hour of sniffing
For the rabbit den

Red bird on the bush
A splash of garden color
His wife just joined him!

Another cold day
The bright sunshine looks so warm!
Springtime's a liar

The year's first harvest
Is a bright burst of flavor
Perennial herbs

Under gentle rain
The smell of dirt and springtime
Between the droplets

The god is risen
Spring sun  is his baptism
Summer his kingdom

Kneeling in the dirt
Saying a prayer to the seeds
Glad soul, aching back

Went to the theater
but I didn’t see the show.
What’s the date again?

Unforgiveable
Until you ask forgiveness
The strength of friendship

Eight and a half hours
Completely in the darkness
I slept right through it

A late spring snow storm
covered new flowers in white.
I shrug and put on boots.

Don't get in the way
of the starry-eyed dreamers
They will save the world

I just found Quan Yin
the Queen of the Universe,
eating lunch alone

Morning walkabout
Water running in the pond
Makes a happy sound

I'm a hurricane,
making wind in my hair with
steel blades on hard ice.

Today smells like spring
Ducklings are out for a swim
It all starts again.

Almost time for bed
How did I get through the day
Without a poem?

Old clothes on a pyre
Burning pain and memory
The old life left behind

We walk on a road
The shape of the Milky Way
Seeking a way in

Or we stand on it
Counting the miles and wond'ring:
Are we in or out

Like hidden tattoos
Unmatched socks inside my boots.
Who's gonna know?

Spring rain and coffee
The house lit by the grow lamps
Pepper seeds sprouted!

Snip this, sprinkle that:
gardeners in early spring
need something to do

A wall of found bricks
Collapses every winter.
So I rebuild it.