Nature’s Time

flowering sundial
it’s gnomon
the coulds

Flowering Sundial

time
is measured
by the lily’s shadow

Telling Time

fence slat
sun dial
spring’s high noon

Earth’s Wrinkles

water is the earth’s skin
wrinkled by the cold
marks and ridges telling time
the oldest story ever told

Telling Time

wrinkles not rings
tell the secrets
of this tree’s age

Sage

the sage knows
the only time
is now