Poem Category: Miscellaneous

Family courts
outside the creaking rooms
a child in frilly socks.

Such is wind
to let autumn’s last gold leaf
flutter in vain.

Pleasure boats
below the harbour tides
their bottoms in touch.

Headstone
a crow shaking black rain
out of its coat.

Emerging sun
letting the sail board race
paint the lake.

Our Sunday’s roast
father first winding
the grandfather clock.

Autumn chill
after her funeral
finishing my aunt’s crochet.

Sand dunes
the surf calls, calls,
the many turtle hatchlings.

Cicadas
filling the summer sunset
with the last chorus.

Meeting old friends
our shared scandals
in and out of cocktails.