Poem Category: Garden Sundial

Past the sundial

into the lemon tree

winter’s loud wind.

Sundial garden

father’s peach tree

growing in his ashes.

By the sundial

the children’s pet grave

… another lesson.

Sundial

mosquitoes whining

over the gardener’s neck.

Sundial

the garden Buddha’s

eternal smile.

Sundial garden

a cracking egg

surrounds the chick.

sun and cloud
ticks and re-ticks
the brass sundial

the sundial records—
the lightning bolts
back to the night

cirrus clouds
sweeping time
from the sundial