spring:

melting snow

spots of washed blue

prairie crocus

new burrow

the owl's yellow eyes

within

twilight

a Great Plains toad

trills into darkness

summer:

porcupine grass

awns as quills

to stick the sky

summer breeze

filling with barks

unseen prairie dogs

Dakota Skippers

on and off and on

purple coneflowers

fall:

Hunter's moon

cries of the long-billed curlew

overhead

side-oats grama

dusty flower clusters

point south

autumn breeze

digging the Indian breadroot

to dry in the sun

winter:

gray day

the pronghorn as ghosts

in the fog

white cap

on the storm fence

snowy owl

Canadian wind

only the whistle

of the barbed wire

THE OUTLAWPOETS