ghost of a daytime moon
leaves blow morse code scratches
across the pavement
by James Brush
Category: Micropoems
These micropoems aka “small stones” are short observational micro-poem-things mostly about nature. They are the result of paying close attention to the world around and writing from those moments.
(photo by R)
cool evening
jack-o-lantern thoughts
in August
Mexican hat
and fields of thistle
a still sky
baby bird
struggles for the sky
wheels crunch bone
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Sometimes I wish I couldn’t capture these “fully engaged moments” as Fiona puts it. Or that I could disengage. Or that I could have done something. Or that the driver was more engaged, though I doubt he even knew the bird was there.
sitting in the tub
my son
grasps at water
rivulets
through
tiny wrinkled fingers
he stands in his crib
smiling and waving at me
where have ten months gone?
live oak branches
nighttime beetles hover
among shadowed leaves
silent nestbox
one chickadee didn’t fledge
I bury him in his nest