A first-Winter-done maple
just today
sports a coppery sheaf of buds
and the plums
are dream-clouds
on a cerulean sky
– it is only I
cannot unfurl his heart
to the pageant.
Lonely
Dog howling midst wide, fenced acres:
lonely for the ancestral pack
- for the litter he was born to.
- Norman Morrissey
- for the litter he was born to.
- Norman Morrissey