Dream

While I dream of stars,

you are dreaming of shadows

eclipsing our love.

Spider

dew frost

trembling spider

drops a stitch

banana cream pie

winking from the diner shelf

just to torment me

salmon fishery

eagles lurk in nearby pines

hoping for free lunch

Pattering of rain—

an old man clumps for cover

under North Street bridge.

a pair of tin drums

warning the ravenous ganders

away from the corn

fragrant flakes of snow—

white chrysanthemum petals

dusting sloe-eyed child

old women keening—

no barley straw to bundle

for winter fuel

leaf by leaf

a willow shedding

summer dreams

roused by the whirring

of the red dragonfly’s wings—

why the sun rises