Why do beetles' songs
seem to amplify the heat?
    A pre-monsoon day.

Where King George the third
     walked with Joseph Banks
          a Green Woodpecker hunts ants.

rows of white crosses,
behind black iron fence,
recall the fall of 1916

A horned snail measures
       a life's years on granite stone:
"John Butler Chorley".

The Black Pine recalls
   the smell of pipe smoke...
      the sound of pen on paper.

fresh blackberry pie
while watching flowers in bloom
      frames a summer day