Water

Noanet Woodlands, Dover, Massachusetts

Snow has left.

 Awakening streams are infusing the woods.

  Crisscrossing, 

    jumping over rocks, 

   rushing through the narrows.

  Burble, burble, burble...

     and I listen... 

Where are They ?

Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts

Warm days have arrived.

 Snowflakes are dissolving, not leaving, just changing.

  Do I see them ? 

  In the rising bubbles of the melting crystals.

  In the unveiled earth patches.

    

 Watering the woods.

  Do I see them in this baby pine ?... 

Traces

Estabrook Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

A few days after the blizzard.

 Soft drifts are at rest

  and

 the trees are standing, being themselves.

  

 Others, 

  tracing where paths do not appear 

   unless already passed.

  

 Stepping on someone's footprints, in the hope that they will hold. 

  Sometimes they do,

    very often they don't 

 and my boot sinks into the hole...