New poem

 I added a new poem called "Nascent Spring" to my Poetry page. I was writing a poem at the end of 2024 about the downtime in the last weeks of a year and the uncertainty of what will happen in the future. I realized it worked well with the idea of springtime rebirth in another poem that I had started recently, on an evening walk through Phinney Ridge. I combined them through water imagery, which is a reoccurring theme in my poetry and heart.

Nascent Spring 

Camellias droop, heavy-lidded

On sleepy boughs

A soundless breeze 

Shadows you to the water

As the butter moon dips slowly 

Into the cobalt bay 

There is a name for this

Estuary

A buoyant channel from sweet water to salt 

Collective calm to the cauldron sea

When you emerge 

Star-splashed and bioluminescent 

What will you remember?