Del’s Lion

Ceramic lion, three feet tall, sitting majestically on my front porch. Old, chipped, scarred, something my uncle had in a barn. This lion lets intruders know: Beware of the Housecat.

The Lion in Winter. Photo by Laura Owen Sutherland.

Green Leaves in September

Green leaves in September in bright sun hang, so many pieces of glass.

Solar Jailbreak (Sunset, Saturday, 4 September 2010)

William Van Doren, Solar Jailbreak (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Two

They were savage streams. Electric lines passed beside them where their dead trees fell over. Light bounced out of their clumpy pools. Slow almost flat streams, they had nowhere to fall. They crept in a grassland of old wood, waiting for wild rivers returning.

Saturday Afternoon

Woods wells of sunlight. Sunlight fountains of woods.

Black Cherry Scenario

The season passed, the black cherries bitter. Every unharvested idea became a complaint.