armidillo

armadillo
looks over his shoulder
and is gone

Chilean beech forest

soft-floored forest
victim of the settlers' match
- trusting belly up

pioneers felled
alerce forest giants
- more next millenium

Parting

relentless winds
flatten the pampas
hold me upright
as your parting words
howl by me

Christmas

King parrot flashes red
across the Christmas table
- come and gone again

Orsono II

Darwin saw the lava
spill down Orsono's slope
barren after all these years

Orsono

snow sculpted mountain
floats above the pine ringed lake -
moment out of time