3 February 2025 (winter's midpoint)

winter’s midpoint . . .

a red pickup crosses

the frozen lake

19 October 2024 (blue jays)

blue jays

through yellow leaves

the deep end of the lake

12 April 2022 (loons)

loons on the lake . . .

remembering the night

of my sister’s birth

27 March 2022 (ice-out)

ice-out

the white throat

of a loon

9 March 2022 (mother reports)

my mother reports

her blackbird is back . . .

soft spots in lake ice

6 March 2022 (thaw)

late winter thaw . . .

mist wreaths the islands

locked in lake ice

11 September 2021 (lake)

late summer clouds the lake deeper blue

12 December 2020 (lake)

edge of the lake

edge of my awareness

shifting ice

1 February 2020 (birches)

winter lake

a birch stand that wasn’t there

when I was a kid

5 January 2020 (winter deepens)

Another response to a kigo (season word) prompt, this time to “winter deepens”:

winter deepens

the dark allure

of open water

23 November 2019 (winterberry)

winterberry

the lake kicking up

before the freeze