I stand alone,
On a frozen El platform.
What pleasures have I left behind?


The child has grown
Three feet since last I saw!
Eyes of a hawk


Frozen bird,
Heart chewed out
Onto stark white snow


Dinner party…
Tender snowflakes fall
Against purple sky


Train roars above
Shakes loose the track;
Lion runs through a thicket


A cat’s pink ear
Conch shell by the sea
Hears eternal waves.


Frost grows like mold
On a building’s side;
The city churns


Steam from a chimney
Meanders vertically,
Cars, a horizontal stream


Sun forgives icicles
Winter has arrived
Where have the days gone?