20 December 2020 (seal)

waxing day moon

a seal fat for winter

basks on the beach

19 December 2020 (eider)

turning tide

a starfish wriggles

in the eider’s bill

18 December 2020 (plow)

all-night storm

the pulse of hard rock

from inside the plow truck

17 December 2020 (tracks)

fresh snow

a straight line of tracks

crosses the lake

16 December 2020 (buffleheads)

snow on the river . . .

feeding buffleheads

flicker on and off

—I wrote this one for December 2020 New England Letters (which was shared today) in response to the prompt “surprise”

15 December 2020 (snow)

just a little snow

on each fallen leaf

thoughts lost on waking

14 December 2020 (song)

an annoying song

stuck in my head

snow turns to rain

13 December 2020 (rain)

rain all night

the river grows

louder

12 December 2020 (lake)

edge of the lake

edge of my awareness

shifting ice

11 December 2020 (butterfly)

pandemic winter

a cabbage white flutters

inside the window

10 December 2020 (knots)

cold comfort

out of the woodwork

the faces of animals