Lexomancy:  A Nursery Story

The spider in the greenhouse

downspout, its life an endless 

loop, relying on randomly open 

pages in some obscure book 

to create a subtext 

that is easily misconstrued 

for truth.

[LSS, 12/24/20] 

Baroque Painting

Japanese maples 

underplanted beneath 

old-growth cedars

and one dying hemlock.

Nothing is moving. 

And then I see you

harvesting winter 

squash in our garden 

and the landscape

comes alive.

[LSS, 12/24/20]