19 September 2026 (north wind)

north wind

gulls eddying

above Casket Rock

10 September 2026 (blustery morning)

blustery morning

a panicked flicker

then the hawk

5 September 2026 (sunlit sills)

sunlit sills

twenty-knot gusts

running loose through the house

17 July 2026 (the new moon)

the new moon

clinging to the horizon

night wind

20 June 2026 (following seas)

following seas . . .

drawn-out goodbyes

on the crowded wharf

18 June 2026 (gale-whipped waves)

gale-whipped waves—

a soaring gull

careens past the wharf

30 May 2026 (a catboat)

a single catboat

tacking up the sound

wind-trimmed spruces

20 April 2026 (wind chill)

wind chill

a dream of the tropics

resolves into ospreys

11 April 2026 (burying)

burying the goldfinch . . .

leafless branches clack

with each gust

9 April 2026 (finch breeze)

finch breeze—

a neighbor’s pink sheets

flap on the line

6 April 2026 (a kinglet's song)

a kinglet’s song

lost to the wind

fairy ring