window shopping

in a shop window
I spy an anxious clumsy youth
and a grown man

deceit

feet up, head back
she waits for an answer
knuckles white

pine box

in summer
in a pine box in the city
grows a pine

never not young

night bus,
an old couple, eyes wrinkled
only for each other

a bus ride

afternoon rush
hair on a strangers neck
unbound

zephyr

a zephyr
wakes me from my nap ‒
a passing dove

To whom it may concern

everything I
know about you
is in a book
that I keep
in my head

the club

at the club they dance
he in front of everybody
she alone

hunters

snowy pines
white wolves hunting ‒
in his beard

cover

december snow -
the black cat is hunting
for a place to go

blackbird

cutting winter fuel
the half-remembered blackbird —
his father's voice

veteran

muffled and cloaked
the soldier leans on his cane
to hear the debate
rested he leaves on the wind
a plague on both their houses

discovery

bathed in sweat
the boy learns a secret
known to all

butterfly bridge

between black bricks
rooted in mortar
a buddleia blooms

letter box

put away my pen —
a masterful seduction
for the letter box

the choice

winter storm —
the old man decides
to lie down