Long Snowmelt Poems

Although I hardly gave it a thought
I didn't really doubt
our miniature juniper, a bonsai,
would survive our desert vacation.
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Yosemite’s Ephemeral Autumn Falls

Bald giants of swift water smoothed pale granite
Mark deep clefts for tumbling summer snowmelt
Rush released from frozen streams once frostbit
Silver swells - Ribbon Falls in pure ice melt -
Ephemeral streams slowed beneath...

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BEYOND ALL GREEN

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ODE TO SUMMER


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Aspen, ponderosa pine, blue spruce
pink glacier-cut rock, scree, ravens
gray jay, peregrine falcon, hawk.

We climb to 11,000 feet in three days, 
camp at Lawn Lake for three days. Alpine
tundra. Elk, bighorn sheep, marmot.

Tileston Meadows, ticks in...

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The creek is running swollen from the snowmelt.  
The nights are getting shorter day by day.
The crocus pose like dancers in recital; 
A portrait of the garden’s first bouquet.
Forsythia bloom golden by the pathway....

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The wind, a constant noise, keeps roiling on,
blows through bare branches with the leaves long gone,
cool April’s chill is warmer than the snow,
up in the mountains it has yet to go,
sticks and debris are littering...

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Guilded light 
tangers lost in flight
over lavender meadows
whistling like our rooster kettle
Hot...summer days violets grew
where crystal light filters through
picture windows
The wind soughs and whispers slow
stirring gentle leaves 
turning gold in late summer's eve
Crystal light paled...

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