Birds

   rain

     trees

          sea

winter lets go

 

finger by finger

 

(with no loquacious good-bye)

 

 

the dark season

   floats out

      here on this coast

 

      as the light blue

 

      pale yellow

 

      yellow green

 

      tender breeze

      tenderly arrives

 

      lavender gray

       the geese-

     whales return

 

blowing tender bubbles

    into our dreaming

 

shoots push through dirt

 

all small children

          think of lambs, calves, foals-

 

wobbly

 

      hanging onto Mother