summer’s mugginess
dragging my shadow
                 behind me
 

above the marsh
something birdish in the reeds
unseen wholesomeness

                    up
                    and
                    over
             April rain
     May sunshine   
                    a climbing vine  
                    purple blossoms

long-distance semi
and a rust-freckled trailer
they have done it all

cat on railing
again
the moon song

Nebraska hayfield
uncles, cousins, I and
grandma’s dinner bell

harbingers come
from far away
perhaps as far
as from inside
and darkness falls

-- Ayaz Daryl Nielsen