Autumn in Vermont

The afternoon landscape is burning

into blushing dusk:

bonfires of saffron,

orange rind, lemon peel,

red flannel.

When night drapes houses

and hills with shapes,

a mellow moon

perches

on Green Mountains,

then rises to a silver spot.

The morning world arrives,

under water blue sky,

applauded by thousands of

birch leaves fluttering

gold and green

on Gun Hill.

Waitsfield,

Vermont

October 1997

from The Speed of Sight

Where Blue Meets Blue

Ephemeral,

still, indelible,

the water color

that lights out

from the surface

of this broad-day Bay,

into the iris

of my ocean-going eye;

that for a while

becomes

more brilliantly blue,

as if enchanted

or refracting

a blue more rare

and pure.

As I sit back

on a sun-rayed terrace

on a wind-raked terrace

on a hill

high above the source,

high above the view.

Nonsuch Bay

Bermuda

March 2013

Colores Primarios |  Primary Colors

Burnt-orange                                    bird

on pine                                               tree

on plaster                                           cloud

on azure                                              sky                          

Punta Bete

The Yucatán

Mexico

February 2002

A Brush of Yellow




 

A brush of yellow.

A hatch of red.

A wash of blue.

Goldfinch,

blackbird,

heron.

Near-sunset.

Around the pond.

All soft ~ air,

wings, light;

song.

on Kitchell Pond

Loantaka Brook

Morristown,

New Jersey

May 2017