26 May, 2014

Cocoon of metal:
            green and red lights flash by,
       banking over black ocean.
Undulating flight:
       forest's
    painted
                clowns
retrieving last year's acorns.
Brown block boarding house,
  rocky pineland trail descends
  to the pale sidewalk.
a butterscotch breeze
        wends downslope through our stately pines,
     safe for now

25 May, 2014

From Mars Hill
   the town is capped by fire's smoke.
Less obvious below.