wonder
— Autumn comes alive through sensory comparisons — rainbows after rain, warm pumpkin seeds, leaves showering down, and sun playing hide-and-seek with clouds.
— A whimsical recipe poem for making soup from bay water, moon snail shells, urchin spikes, and other seaside ingredients, stirred into a whirlpool under August lightning.
— A young poet observes rivers, leaves, clouds, and birds, concluding with the hope that nature returns their love.
— Light streams through canyon rocks and trees, transforming water into emerald and creating a dance of shadows and illumination in a moss-carpeted grotto.
— A lyrical catalog of a garden's inhabitants — leaves, trees, bushes, flowers, birds, and bugs — celebrates nature's overwhelming abundance and mystery.
— A brief meditation on the paradox of 'now' — how the present moment of writing becomes the past by the time of reading.
— A child's meditation on the beauty of the name Paulina spirals into wonder about meaning, naming, and the limits of knowledge.
— Light reflecting off wet pavement on a stormy night transforms into lasers, fountains, and aurora borealis in the speaker's imagination.
— From a patch of grass, a solitary observer watches the summer solstice sunset transform into night, tracking each color shift until fireflies claim the darkness.
— A sensory celebration of summer unfolds through repeated refrains of birdsong, ocean waves, flowers, and family gatherings.