Cloud Moods

Drifting

from stormy

and shadowed

to blue sky 

bright

racing the wind

or floating

in a woven hammock

of sunshine

raining

out of the clear

or shingling

darkness

upon darkness

Only where my heart rests

matters

Sister Seasons

Yesterday's

cicada-seranaded heat

has simmered

down

to this morning's

cool gray

cricket's one-note song

Late summer

and early autumn

fraternal twins

perhaps

mistaken

for identical

join arms

and lean their red gold

heads

on each other's

deep green shoulders

Even the geese

are uncertain

gathering briefly

to fly south

then returning