Grass is Greener

on the other side of snow

that came early in Ohio

The snow melted after a long, cold week

uncovering the greenest grass I have ever seen

TR

Ents in Illinois

White, shadow-dappled, fluffy snow laces around the feet of many tall, brown, naked, foggy-gray-brown, branchy, twiggy trees that dance across the fields and hills of the exotic land of Illinois.

TR

A Cool View

Morning sun glances

off icy patches on a small

pond from behind naked

winter Illinois trees

TR

Wake Up Call on November Sixteenth

Sunday morning snow

conceals everything white

while a train whistles

TR

Snowing Tonight

It’s snowing in southwest Kansas tonight and

the cold depends on the thermometer

if you look at the back porch’s, it’s stuck on twenty-six degrees

maybe afraid to go lower

the bank’s says eleven degrees, the car nineteen

Regardless, it’s only November twelfth and

it’s snowing in southwest Kansas tonight

TR