Small Stone 10/13

Dragonfly

I look for her, my newest resident

Of two days, whose alien body has been

Splayed across a waxy needled frond of the sago,

like a six-limbed Kali in repose, third eye open.

Small Stone 10/3

Driving through a lane of broken shadows cast by about-to-fall maple leaves, 

Sunbeams beat on the windshield like a strobe light. 

Small Stone 8/15

2:00 am

Solid darkness

Beside my bed, she whispers

"I'm afraid to go to kindergarten."

Small Stones 7/26

Dirt-smudge toe prints confetti the ladder to her bed;
artifacts of a barefoot summer.

Small Stone 7/25

Before they scattered in retreat...
Before I reached in, with damp cloth, for the kill...
Before I was close enough to see clearly...
Specks of coarsely ground pepper on a stray cheerio.

Small Stone 7/24

A crooked square of blinding light breaks the shadow on the stucco wall; with loose corners, a right angle leans a little to the left.

Small Stone 7/23

Settling into a cool night, plexiglass crackles like stiff joints.