Sunday, April 6, 2014

First Quarter April

1
Sheltering
snow mold,
an elm pruned
shows
slow
slow
bud swell.

2
Downy woodpeckers cluck.

Singing,
cardinals,
thrushes (wood, robin),
starlings and  house sparrows
exhibit
prominent dimorphism.


3
During days

the weather turns in hours -
fog,
pellets of doomed snow,
thick drizzle,
dry sun chill.


4
Stars!

The night of bears arrives.

Near the horizon, north, the hunter flees.