Thank you to The Writes and Readers Magazine for publishing three of my poems in the travel issue.  Here is one of them:

Evergreen Emerges

While our bus is rising in altitude,

up, up, up,

there’s fascination to be found

with the changing landscape.

After the sprawling emptiness

of weediest infields,

begins the vast condition

of very verdant fields,

where one could pick the wispiest posies.

And beyond this,

the evergreens begin,

tall and thin,

and sprinkled among

is the magenta smartness of redbuds.

And next to those, spirea.

In this stout bright,

all is leafy and full,

even the curly fungus

at the base of the woods’ trees

is evident.

There’s enough space in places

to see the puffy glade

within the forest, 

even with all that foliage.

Disputable openness,

because one must look fast

as we whiz by.

This is April-

later in the year,

the North air will descend

with top winds,

and Autumn taste will become apparent.

The deciduous tremble will begin,

 but not today, in early Spring.

Leaves we saw while on the bus,

In Fall, gusts accept green flags like thieves,

And hither and thither blows them thus,

By zephyrous and breathy means.