Poem Category: Australian

Migrating geese
the sounds of the summer
carried on a breeze.

Mountain Pines
a Christmas-card snow
sprayed on the lake.

Floods recede
cattle and calves
swelling the hills.

Mosquito
bringing the dog’s blood
into my sleep.

Whiskey-raw midnight
only country songs
in the motel room.

Clothes line
swinging the laughs
of children.

Cathedral closed
giddy with fear
the black bird’s long caw.

Park bench …
autumn so silent
I kick up the dry gold leaves.

I … of these hooked feet
silent out of sun and wind
hawks kill whom we want.

Rock climb
being alone
my car keys jingle.