fallen leaves
slide over the spillway –
another daydream

election day –
folding and unfolding
umbrellas

winter daybreak –
the shadow of a bird
darts into the bedroom

rusted plow –
a few husks of cotton
left in the field

first snowflakes –
the caged raven
playing with its food

autumn evening
the neighbor's turtle tank
glows

open window
everything I know of the world
in falling leaves

falling acorns –
     the deer's
           ears

winter light . . .
his war medals
in a shadow box

winter dusk
the sleeping child surrounded
by origami cranes