closing my eyes to see for a moment

1.
tepid water
in a large oaken bucket
mosquitos swarm

2.
cool clay
moulded by hard rain
no puddles

3.
an oak leaf
under foot
hidden

4.
an oak leaf
on a soft breeze
free

5.
an oak leaf
in a large pile
anonymous

6.
a glass of wine
on an oak stump
with a fly

7.
three butterflies
dancing yellow and black
a red rose bush

8.
three butterflies
dancing black and yellow
hot sunshine

9.
two butterflies
dancing black and yellow
a butterfly net

10.
elegant lioness
growls softly by the river
hungry.

11.
a water buffaloe
thunders across savannah
thirsty

12.
blood smeared
in thick golden fur
no napkin

13.
a butterfly
dancing black and yellow
a storm in paris

14.
saharan sands
swirl in soundless sun
a snake slithers off

15.
silence
the sound of the summit
Everest rests.

16.
hundreds of mayflies
tiny, black, and amoral
sinless.

17.
thousands of mayflies
tiny, black and hungry
biting

18.
millions of mayflies
tiny, black and full
still biting

19.
jasmine tea
in pewter pot
steam.

20.
chamomile
in bone china
chipped

21.
fresh squid
rapped in seaweed and rice
no chopsticks.

22.
a little boy
singing snow white fleece
to a cheerio.

23.
a red maple tree
oozing sugary sap
a broad blade axe

24.
rusted jalopy
in the cool bugless shade
a sugar maple

25.
twelve tiger lilys
in neat perfect rows of four
grubs in the dirt

26.
sumak round sandbox
tall, strong and poison
shadows criss-cross

27.
ivy climbing red brick
from bottom to top
a perfect view

28.
a pine cone
buried in loam
a pine tree

29.
the table cloth
thick with yellow pollen
the collie sneezes

30.
cascading lightning
exploding white in the night
fresh uncut firewood

31.
orange needles
carpet the forest floor
squirrels skitter by.

31.
rotting pine tree
wet in the evergreen shadows
a black salamander

32.
kindling in neat piles
every twenty feet.
no fire

33.
twenty granite stones
in a perfect circle
no fire.

34.
a young lady
in a clean cotton red dress
lost in the woods

35.
a red dress tattered
on the wet orange carpet
tears and pineneedles

36.
a butterfly
dances yellow and black
when the sun returns