Hump-back
PoetryHump-back in a huff and a puff you loll
bask in the waves sighing, pitching your tail
curling to hide some bad mood as you roll
over surface so still you tip, slide and sail…
Images
In my father’s garden
PoetryI live in my father’s garden celebrate our conversations summer lighting up the roses pink carnations spreading scents and
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Master Mountain, Denali, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryMaster mountain sighs his enormity weeps in small gullies at the weight he holds, despairs of immensity, too big to
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Jostled by Ghosts
PoetryYou never would imagine he could close up like that, like an oyster, wrinkled mouth sealed shut contours of hermetic
Jaeger Bird, Barrow, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryHe flies in ribbons like my hair undone
loosely in this arctic breeze
like a kite in the wind his long tail trailing
above melting icefloe, along costal freeze
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Cranes, Cook Inlet, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryLike a queen’s downy bed fluffed up for the loving featherlace wings drifting aloft they glide with the wind two
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Cormorant on the Westman Islands, Iceland
Iceland, PoetryHe hangs out his wings to dry
soggy his dive
lazy on lava he loiters, waits
for whatever flounder dare wander
in harbour waters
beneath his razor-sharp rock.
Hungry, daggerbeak hook-tipped
aloof
quick wing-tuck, neck-stretch
so sudden the plunge to survive.
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Glow Worm
Normandy Notebook, PoetryCup in hand I take my tea at midnight down a darkening track lush chestnut oak and elm hang heavy
Loon (on Lake Denise, Soldotna, Alaska)
Alaska, PoetryIt’s the call over still water echoing round the bay of my mind some yearning, undefined A loon owns this
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Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryThis crack in your iceflesh thawing like a crease in the mouth of your womb you are melting in sighs
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