Macaques

In the steaming springs

The frost monkeys warm themselves.

Light sparkles the snow. 

How I Was Moved to Feed the Birds

The black grackle hopped

Up onto the patio

Its feet puddle-damp.

The Fool

 A man sits and thinks
Seeing what we cannot see
Understanding what

We can't understand
Knowing the unknowable
We see he's insane

He's a fool because
He sees, he understands, he
Knows what we wish not

My Son's School Bean

The plastic planter
Grows a bean -- three leaves, three months
Of drought -- life persists

Standing on a Bridge at Night

There's truly nothing
Sadder than a romantic
Without a lover.

Melina's Haiku

My dad can go in
A car and we see yellow
Sun and a pink pig.

by Melina Keridwen Camplin, age 5
the only help from her father (me) was in spelling the word "yellow"

The Constructal Law

The world is a tree

We are rooted, branching out 

Just go with the flow 

Chirping

Enfluffed wired bird.
Green air frosts your every word,
Feathered thoughts, absurd

Recycling

The burnt grass smolders.
On the tips the red embers
Glow bright in the sun.

Time Evolves

Light, you see no time –
Everything happens at once.
You are becoming.

Quantum particles,
You live life uncertainly.
You are just likely.

Chemicals, crystals,
Things for you go either way.
You are determined.

Plants and animals,
All of life eats, breeds, and breathes.
What’re your intentions?

And now there is man,
A life of symbolic goals.
Are we most timeful?

Uncertain Heights

Look at the ant hill.
It is not a high mountain,
Top lost in the clouds.