doves

he stands beside her as she sits
where the tree stump used to be
perfectly mimicking the arrangement of the toadstools

corner of Sunset and Marley

gull shrieking from
cloud-whisped sky
Holstein-print car seat in the black jeep

long-lost friend

curious black eye peeks over the fence
she serenades us with her mournful song
and we wonder at her absence

dinner-dance

sparrow dips and darts
in an aerial dance with
a shrieking cicada