exercise
As Bright As Snow
Ski Reverie
ski day reverie
filled with powder grins,
soft turns, silent flakes
always a long day
yet happiness takes its time
falling from the sky

From Sunrise to Catset
Ski Religion
Ode to Winter
SkyView
Road Trip 2022, Day Eleven: Cades Cove
a magical place:
the only way to describe
these teenage smiles

even pup loves it
cycling past wildlife
below the Smokies

where can you see bears
and collect salamanders
under the same sun?


this mountain-framed pic
taken on the same soil
twenty-three years past

we’re fatter, older
while the mountains are hotter;
such is life—sad changes

yet look at our girls
fearlessly taking this on
one moon-wing a time


Road Trip 2022, Day Eleven: Cades Cove
a magical place:
the only way to describe
these teenage smiles

even pup loves it
cycling past wildlife
below the Smokies

where can you see bears
and collect salamanders
under the same sun?


this mountain-framed pic
taken on the same soil
twenty-three years past

we’re fatter, older
while the mountains are hotter;
such is life—sad changes

yet look at our girls
fearlessly taking this on
one moon-wing a time


Road Trip 2022, Day Eight: Rainforest
Kentucky has coal
but also cool rainforests
(midsummer cooldowns)

enough rain will fall
in two days to flood a creek
drunk by my puppy


water is the life
that sustains these roadside farms
its blood for our blood
