Dead weeds in the ditch
 
array themselves in sunlight
 
and bright coats of frost.

 
 
 

My apricot tree
 
has put on its fine green coat
 
to dance with the wind.

 

 
 
 

To my winter coat
 
a desiccated spider
 
clings as though alive.

Coat

 
 
 

On day seventeen
 
every chair on the terrace
 
wears a coat of frost.

Snowflakes

 
 
 

Sometime after dawn
 
the first of many snowflakes
 
start to coat the oak.

Rain

 
 
 

Even during rain
 
the front-porch jack-o’-lantern
 
wears a coat of dust.

Coat

 
 
 

Deepening autumn—
 
the scarecrow in the garden
 
wears a coat of frost.

Hem

 
 
 

After spring planting,
 
the hem of the scarecrow’s coat
 
keeps unraveling.

Dog

 
 
 

late autumn downpour—
 
remembering my old dog
 
and his rain-soaked coat

Chair

 
 
 

An old wooden chair,
 
needing a new coat of paint,
 
wears cobwebs instead.