Robert Ronnow

–with lines by Gary Snyder & P.K. Page

 

Spring morning,

quiet. One coyote,

three deer

running in snow.

 

What else have I seen?

A sparrow hawk in mid-air snatch

a robin, a sharp-shinned hawk catch

a rabbit in its talons.

 

A deaf mute in a pear tree.

Never wolverines

in Utah and Italy.

Or famous samurai.

 

A young black bear

traverses the lawn in August.

Also quarks. Also oaks.

Do not disturb its progress!

 

A red fox

alert, no limp

flows silently

across the meadow.

 

First light, green tea.

A person thinking

epochs and eons.

A platoon of chickadees.