9 December 2019 (fog)

winter fog

our world dissolving

around the edges

8 December 2019 (comet)

the brief transit

of an alien comet

feeder birds

Click here to read about Comet 2I/Borisov, the second-known interstellar object observed by humans in our solar system.

7 December 2019 (paper whites)

paper whites

the books I hope to read

over the winter

6 December 2019 (crow)

one crow calling

what am I doing

with my life

5 December 2019 (tracks)

new snow

deer tracks crossing

long shadows of trees

4 December 2019 (jays)

a friend’s birthday

the glamour of blue jays

in fresh snow

3 December 2019 (snow)

Wallace Stevens’s poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a classic of modern poetry and clearly influenced by Japanese haiku, which was just beginning to intrigue American poets and writers in the early 1900’s. Also, the poem’s a long-time favorite of mine.

During today’s snowstorm, this stanza from the poem comes to mind:

XIII
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.

“It was snowing / And it was going to snow.” Ah, winter in Maine.

all day snow

a white fox emerging

from a dream

2 December 2019 (wind chimes)

rising pressure

before the snowstorm

neighbor’s wind chimes

1 December 2019 (chickadee)

first light

the chickadee selecting

another seed