19 August 2020 (nighthawks)

heat lightning

a pair of nighthawks flits

over the hayfields

18 August 2020 (rain)

early morning rain

i fall back asleep

with a sigh

17 August 2020 (goldfinches)

the many shades

of late summer

goldfinches on sunflowers

16 August 2020 (sunflowers)

cricket crescendo

my neighbor’s sunflowers

begin to droop

15 August 2020 (osprey)

morning has broken . . .

the distant keening

of an osprey

14 August 2020 (butterfly)

dog days

a white butterfly follows

another white butterfly

13 August 2020 (coffee)

morning coffee

filled with warmth

for the backyard crows

12 August 2020 (crickets)

thrum of crickets

who can even think straight

right now

11 August 2020 (crickets)

meteor shower

the night air thick

with crickets

10 August 2020 (stone)

staring into waves

even this beach stone

was once mud

9 August 2020 (blackberries)

ripe blackberries

the part of my brain

where poems come from