12 February 2026 (sunlight)

sunlight

dripping from an icicle

the cardinal’s short song

26 January 2026 (sideways snow)

sideways snow

a cardinal cedes the feeder

to his mate

26 May 2025 (memorial bench)

memorial bench

she sits and listens

for a cardinal

29 January 2025 (slow-falling snow)

slow-falling snow

a cardinal takes her time

in the feeder

15 August 2023 (more awake)

more awake than I feel morning cardinal

14 May 2023 (sultry)

sultry dusk

the desire

in a cardinal’s voice

20 January 2023 (snowing)

it was snowing

and it was going to snow

cardinal in the cedar

*

An homage to Wallace Stevens’s classic “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” The italicized lines are from the final stanza of his poem.

12 August 2022 (cardinal)

the cardinal’s song

becoming more intense

summer rain

28 July 2022 (as if)

as if he knows what I need to hear cardinal song

8 July 2022 (rain)

summer rain . . .

a cardinal still singing

somewhere upriver

2 April 2021 (chain saw)

spring cleaning

a cardinal’s song vies

with a chainsaw