(for TOO)
the frozen pond
has a memory
of the diving frog
(for HID)
it's on the tip of my tongue
and extends from there as if
soon everything will be forgotten
(for GIG)
at the playground in winter a mother
recognizes her girl's laugh among the
bundled up happy shouting
(for BUD)
I was about 5 when I could see Atlas
holding the world on his shoulders we
both floated through outer space
(for NOR)
winter pouring into
me
nothing like an hourglass
(for TOM)
old man sure it's his
last winter out in his back
yard without the moon
(for BIT)
cold winter night walking
her words alone
through downtown
(for VAN)
a mother worries she sent
her young girl out in too
thin a winter coat
(for SKY)
stinging winter
wind a stray dog
stretches
(for PIN)
of late, of ice, of air,
of self, of season, of
unreason, iced concision
(for NET)
ice suspends this pebble
like a moon hovering over
a dream of Florida
(for HAS)
winter gate or scythe or
doorway to darkness
lintel forged by the icesmith
(for ORB)
performing on late November's
stage a dancer who slows
all blues quickening wonder
(for YON)
half-asleep over its geometry
homework winter daydreams of
wooing the Milky Way
(for ARE)
winter's silence
ice's
empty speech bubbles
(for ELL)
if ice could sing
of winter and/or compose
a cello sonata in ICE Major
(for TAG)
ice daydreams
while praying
to one sun
(for RAY)
winter stations a triangle
at the intersection of
chaos and first
(for SAW)
dreaming a way into the
middle of winter's
mountain the middle child
(for DOT)
ice shifts
the gravestones
for stars
(for MET)
ice closes its eyes to
dream a wet dream of being
both mountain and rain
(for JOE)
this rain that winter froze won't for
the moment collect in a shivering
man's beard at this bus stop
(for THE)
some days beauty belongs
to the ice before it melts you
just hope you get a glimpse
(SET)
a sprig of life within its
icy tomb remains green
green remains
(1)
winter's stick figure in an
icy inch a see-through head
recalling springs unearthing stars
