mosaic

Still Life

cold holds together
the elements
of March’s mosaic

barely
weathered by winter
the enduring oak

green mosaic
masterpiece
of pieces

water, leaf and shadow
elemental mosaic
of mud season

there go
the trees again
making art from life

beauty in being
an obligation
mindfully met

every molecule conspired
rendering the common rock
into a masterpiece

snowflakes cleave
to the ephemeral beauty
of the leaf’s disintegration

Created by damage
like a phoenix
beauty rises.

A transitory garden mosaic
of shadow, leaves and granite veins.