Harvest moon I

Curtain of clouds parts,
Night sky midwifes harvest moon,
The birth of autumn

Office of dead languages

To name is to know and remember. Dana Gioia

Stilled tongue of a past
People: way of life, naming,
Knowing the world, dead

Cricket song

Crickets' creaking fills
The audible world with
Inaudible desire

Mist rising

Mist, water spirits
Captivated by sunlight,
Ascends to heaven

Enough

To want just enough--
No feast nor famine, at peace
With sufficiency

Trout rising

Rainbow trout rises,
Catching new mayflies, merging
Iridescences

Bell

Church bell's mute tongue loosed
Its song pealing through the fog,
Diaphanous fugue

Walking after rain

Walking after rain,
Light is like inhabiting
A Homer painting