Living Amongst the Sasquatch: And Other Poems

By Steve K. Bertrand

There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796021929

Steve K. Bertrand

For this pictorial history of Paine Field, Steve K. Bertrand has selected more than 200 images from the local community, historical societies, regional libraries, and state archives. He has traced the rich history of Paine Field from its earliest days to its present status as a bustling airport and commercial aviation center. These photographs provide a glimpse into the people and events that influenced this small community in the Pacific Northwest.

Book preview

Copyright © 2019 by Steve K. Bertrand.

ISBN:                  Softcover                        978-1-7960-2193-6

                            eBook                             978-1-7960-2192-9

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

Cover image by Christopher L. Murphy.

Rev. date: 11/04/2019

Xlibris

1-888-795-4274

www.Xlibris.com

792238

Contents

Preface

Living Amongst the Sasquatch

Why?

In the Antediluvian Age

Dreaming of a Past Girlfriend

Autumn Evening

The Marathon

Heather

Beneath This Ancient, Wooden Bridge

With a Big Heart

Just Leave it at That

Life is a Garden

From the Fertile Soil

The Flu

The Flu II

Thirteen

Before Going Out into the World

My Yea is but My Yea

Visiting the Big Buddha in Kamakura

Irreconcilable Differences

Want & Waste

Wounded Birds

Watching the Day Unfold

If Heaven Only Serves One Drink

Out All Night

The Empty Basket

She Becomes My Dawn

Faithful Companions

Dinner at the Gospel Mission

Waiting on the Sea

A Plea for the Chinook & Orcas

A Well-Intentioned Woman

Blood, Sweat & Dirt

Of Weight & the Moon

How Am I Doing?

Golden House

Left to the Crows

Fog in the Valley

At The Water’s Edge

The Watchman

Samaritans

I Live in the Country

Catching an Oar

Digging Up the Past

Waking Early

Best Intentions

Rites of Autumn

She Strolls Barefoot Along the Beach

After Visiting Carlow Castle in Ireland

For God or king or lady fair,

Which Way the Wind Blows

Iced Raspberry Tea

One-On-One

Moral Compass

Off the Coast

Old Man’s Journey

Since Breaking Up

Winter Dream III

Sentinel of the Highway

Harborview

Carrot & Mango

Winter Still-Life

Bitter End

Blue Iris

Rome

The Wolves Have Been Chased from the Mountains

Giving My Thoughts a Name

In the Jungles of Guatemala

The Champ

Choices

Into Half-Light

The Calm Sea

The Transcendental Wanderer

Base Hungers

Approaching Dawn

Hiking to Lookout Mountain

Filling the Silence

The Untested Warrior

Crows

Pruning the Rhododendrons

A Wandering Eye

Hiawatha Blues

The Harrier

Facts of Life

Blessed Days

Heaven & Hell

Every Predator Has Its Day

The Committed Life

Spaghetti Western

Ponder This…

Old Man

Squirrel & Crow

A Coldness to These Days

After the Loss of You

Changes

Portrait of a Drill Sergeant

The Blind Man in the Market

Who’d Have Thought…

Making Up

Chopping Wood

The Cherry Without Its Pit

On My Mind…

In The Distance…

A Captain to his Company

Ouija Board

Passing a Grove of Willows

The Call

Morning Lament

The Bikini Latte Stand

Summer’s End

On Making Headway

What Columbus Never Knew

Beware the Man

First Spring Feed

Thinking About You…

Winter Night

When Winter is at its Deepest

Seduction

Morning Walk

Red-Breasted Nuthatch

Who Do I Turn To For Sympathy?

End of the Rainy Season

In The Evening I Walk Through Monkok

But for the Sweet Sound…

The Fisherman

Girl on the Corner of Corliss & 45th

Where Only Shadows Move

Victoria Park

Come Evening

The World Needs Poets

Whose Life Is Not Without Calamity?

Desert Dream

Comes the Spring

On Berries & Rhubarb

Questions

Sometimes When I Play My Guitar

Waiting on Winter

The Hobo on Hewitt & Broadway

River Rising

A Different Shade of Brown

Trickster

The Old Russian Woman

After a Spring Rain

The Writer

Irony

Autumn Lament

Quenching Their Thirst

Lost & Found

The Pugilists Last Fight

Unwritten Rules

Yellow Canaries

Bird Knowledge

Bullfrog’s Song

Call Waiting

On a Sunny, August Morning

For No Reason at All

Need A Miracle

When Spring Finally Arrives

Beneath My Green Lawn

Fuzzy-Wuzzy

Butterfly Bush

Love Language

Mary Magdalene

Swing Bridges

The Depth of Your Sadness

Wedded Bliss

Koi

Returning to the Place of my Childhood

Sun & Earth

A Frugal Businessman

Promises

A Poet’s Heart

Waiting for Spring

Borrowed Apologies

Moon, Mist & Frog Song

Snow Blankets the Distant Foothills

Somewhere Above the Moon

Getting Old

The Favored Lad

The Old Trestle

Meal Deal

Last Stand

Dreams from my Youth

Sunset

The Older That I Grow

The Nuts Amongst the Berries

Spring Evenings

Northwest Epilogue

Way of the True Warrior

River Poem

Wise Woman

When the Road Forks

The Coastal Highway

Heavenly Bamboo

Praising from the Back of Chapel

Crow in Winter

Dragonfly on the Wall

The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife

Fire Lookout

The Literary Insomniac

Strawberry Pecan Jam

Beware the Killing Frost

Laughing at Myself

Crow Knows…

A Hint of Autumn

A Bowl of Tomato Soup

The Art of Good Storytelling

One of the Believing

Pigeons in the Rain

Winter Requiem

Change

Writing this Poem

By the Bikini Latte Hut

Hints of Spring

Paul’s English Paper

Far as the Eye Can See

She Wants to Escape

Hydrangeas

Which Way the Wind Will Blow…

Gold-Crowned Sparrow

On Beauty

Gray Sky Green

Sea Turtles

When A Poem’s Dead

Sometimes When I’m Feeling Puzzled

Before the Forests Gone

The Day I Got Murdered by the Meter Maid

Approaching Autumn

Because I Could Not Bring the Sea

Hinoki

Spirits

Quail

As Far as Spiny Lobsters Go…

Crossing A Dry Creek Bed

Holding On

Red Bridge

After the Hunt

The Humble Life of Cicada

My Eternal Sleep

Hushing The Wind

The Rings of Saturn

Caretakers

The Only Guidance I Need

Black Against White

Goliaths

At Day’s End

The Boy I Used to Know

The Woman Across the Street

Sometimes When I Dream at Night

Lascaux

Potato Bug Poem

Trawler at Dawn

A Song of Summer

A Month of Drought

Too Much Soy & Sake

A Thousand Mountains

A Thousand Mountains II

Falling Rain

Salting Slugs

Guitar Girl

Trust

Signs of Spring

Five Hands High

The Healer’s Tools

English Lit

Taking a Stand

Deep, Dark Woods

Evening’s Song

Lesson of the Blossoming Dogwood

If Poems Were Cherished

A Response to my Wife’s Inquiry

Marathon

Simple Needs

My Wife They Say Is Like A Cat

The Window Washer at the Columbia Tower

Murder of Crows

Unrequited Love

Sometimes She Thinks…

Gray Hairs

Swatting Mosquitoes

Not So Far to Fall

All That Has Come & Gone

Of All That One Can Achieve

Ah, to be

Slow-Moving Train

Beneath Your Touch II

Oracle Bones

Winter Coming

A Centurion’s Wish…

Dream of the Potato Farmer

A Fairy Tale

A Wooden Boat

Twentieth Class Reunion (October 1994)

To Fill a Religious Void

Sorting Through the Memories

Tomorrow

Casanova

The Waters Deep

Since Retirement

Since Retirement II

The Old Lumberjack

When Life Was Simple

A Glorious Day

The Turn Life Takes…

Spring has Finally Come to Town

Mistake

Ball & Paddle

I Am

Breathtaking

From Where I’m Standing…

Let Me Retreat to the Woods

Beyond the Mist

Gazing Upon Sky

Treasures

Beauty

Too Many Trees

Forgotten Memories of You

It Often Rains in the Pacific Northwest

Needful Things

Fishing

Upon the Tree of Genius

Bonsai Bug

Mortality

For the Dog Next Door

Spring on the Potomac

A Walk Through the Neighborhood

Alexander The Great

A Dialog with Steller’s Jay

Sometimes When Shadows Gently Play

Low Tide at the Beach

At Winter’s End

Elegy for John Donne

Predicting the Weather

Winter Song on the Sauk River

Seven Times Down, Eight Times Up

Stars

Beautiful Girl

Beacon Hill

Little Birds at my Feeder

Hard To Say

The Gypsy’s Curse

Seeds of Heaven

Hinoki

When the Sun Finally Sinks

Coping with Stress

Two Crows

Autumn Morning Meditation

When We First Met

Border Patrol

Fog Obstructs my View

The Self-Appointed Boss

Let Me Be Brutally Honest

Rakes & Hoes

Undecided

The Game

Shopping for Primroses

Hushing The Wind

Fresh as Spring Rain

Solitude

Watching a Fisherman on Possession Sound

Your Perfume

The Weight of Wetness

Between River & You

The Patient Gardener

On Heaven & Hell II

A Bitter Song

Eight

Dwelling in the Real World

Gulls & Crows

Awaiting Spring

This Morning

On Joggers & Dogs

Uninhibited Smile

Sirens

Gone Fishing

On Longevity II

The Vagrant

The Rings of Saturn

Loon

The Passage of Night

Handling Heavy Weather

Winter Thoughts in Japanese Gulch

Persistence

Claudius, The Braggart

Good Samaritan

Chinook Wind

Passing Beauty

Derelicts

Elusive Dreams

Requiem

Waiting for Higher Tide

The Road that Lead Me Back to You

What’s the Matter?

On Hot, Summer Days

An Overstayed Welcome

The Jellyfish It Has No Brain

Tough Stuff

Gathering Starfish

Song for the Slumbering Fields

Zen-Like Ways

Being Boys

Vigilant Crow

Homeward

I Whispered

Washington’s State Bird

Calling Me Back Home

The Reincarnation of Jessica Aldridge

When I Die

On Running

The Boogie Man

The Flickers Are the First to Tell

Winter Song

Lesson of the Tundra Swan

Gazing at a Yellow Rose

Upon Walking Past the Marionberries

What Will I Say?

To Escape the Passing Night

Moon & the Willow

Revisiting A Favorite Fishing Spot

Running The River Road

Fog Upon the Lake

The Nature of Flood Plains

Magical Thinking

Hiking through the Wilderness

Harvesting Rhubarb

Growing Old

Longevity

Mischievous Raven

Sailing Port Gardner Bay

Sometimes

Before Grandfather’s Death

Trimming the Rose Bushes

Since You Departed

Bee at my Window

For Every Sailor

Spring Training

Breathing in the Moment

Gazing into my Koi Pond

As She Sleeps

The Path You Travel

The Lighthouse Keeper

Epiphany

Warrior’s Stare

Someone Told the Spotted Towhee…

First Avenue Indian Reservation

Good Luck, Crow

In a Moonlit Hut

I Walk the Solemn Battlefield

Hiking The Pacific Crest Trail II

Gettysburg II

Cliffs of Moher

Part of my World

Portrait of a Small Island

New Year’s Lament

Finding One’s Song

From My Prison Cell

Titanic

One Thing My Wife Says She Abhors

Moon Shine

Little Black Birds

While I Sleep

Chickadee Perched Atop the Heavenly Bamboo

Barking Dogs

Dracula Meets the IRS

I’m Still Here

Reflections On Prehistory

Upon Visiting the Ashen Ruins of Pompeii

After He Passed Away

Baseball

Blessings

On Biodiversity

With a Very Cold Eye

Both Worlds

Keepsake

Winter Garden

Talk About Your Insomnia

Summer Song

Gifts of the Sea

Watching Raindrops…

Prayer for the Sea Birds

A Man of Simple Words

Pity the Man

Our Monthly Ritual

Home with the Flu

Winter Ritual

Hansel & Gretel

The Swiftest Boy

Napoléon’s Road

Watching a Woman Put on Her Makeup

Vanities

Dessert

The Nearer Bank

Stopping by Train Near a Rice Field

Differences

If I Were a Drinking Man

Our Love

Watching Koi from my Window

A Soldier’s Eulogy

Jogging Around Green Lake

Icarus Falling

Sunrise

Of Man & Beast

The Faintest Memory II

Riptides

After Everyone Had Left

Long, Hot Days

Under Raven’s Shadow

Raven’s World

Enough

What the River Said

Alzheimer’s

Death of a Runner

On the Headstone of Jim Fixx,

Beneath Your Gentle Hand

Homemade Pie

Let Us Not Forget

Hobo of the Marketplace

This Time of Year

Offerings

The Fisherman’s Ritual

He is Just a Lonely Man

Becoming A Poet

Embracing Life’s Unpleasantries

My Father Was a Whiskey Man

The River Knows

The Silence That Becomes Death

Suffering the Heat, Bracing the Cold

Maps

Life is Like a Thorny Weed

Capturing Thoughts Through Poetry

I Walk the Stony Path

The Darkest Cloud

Bamboo Spigot

The Strength of Days

End of the Working Day

Sipping Riesling

Earth & Rain

A Morning Meditation

People Will Come & Go

Simple Pleasures

Simple Pleasures II

To Build This World Anew

A Warrior Steps Courageously

A World of Good

Her Daily Outfit

True Happiness

Stonehenge

Clever Man

Ode to the Old Towns

The Humble Man

On Writing II

The King of Pike Street

Kissable Again

The Intruder

Wondrous Things

The Old Woman

A Plant Will Find a Place to Grow

A Test for Self-Doubt

The Morning Dove

Hiking

Early Summer Morning

Sometimes

Flavius Metrobius

Waiting for their Lattes

Sarapoin

Ode to the Hummingbird

Japanese Gulch

Contemplating the Solitude

Marionberry Vines

Trailblazers

Peek-A-Boo View

Cinisca

The Path through Life

Angry Words

Song of the River Stones

Luray

A Little Bit for Me

After Midnight

The Oriental Painting

Gazing Upon Distant Mountains

The Old Lighthouse II

Tell Me What You Think You See

Owl & Moon

A Lover’s Lament

A Poem’s Worth

A Question at Middle Age

Valentine Poem

Marcus The Olympian

The Guy I Used to Know

My Most Content

Family Vacation

Lumberjack

Standing at the Temple Door

Why Ancient Greeks Competed Naked

Orsippus of Megara

A Flock of Angry Crows

On the First Day of Spring

First Sign of Spring

Crow in Winter II

Skagit Valley

Sometime Before the Dawn

A Noble Life

So Simple

Moon & Willow

While Hiking Through Prescott’s Granite Dells

Arrival of Spring

Purple Iris

Letting Go

Indian Summer

Indian Summer II

Passing by Ferry Between Blakely & Decatur Islands

Gone

She’s Very Secretive

She’s Become a Distant Star

Everybody Gets Some

In the Early Morning Twilight

When I Think About America

Prehistoric Beast

Driver’s Ed

At the Edge of my Grief

Weeping Spruce

Acupuncture

Song of the Hummingbird

On Bible-Thumpers & Hell-raisers

Many Birds

Bounty

Lazy Bones

Ancient Pelicans

Quiet Heroes

Bird by Bird

A Poem for You, Love

Summer Evening Sonata

Contemplating the Horizon

Birdwatcher

How Quickly the Water Rushes

Because I Love Her

Whitehorse Mountain

Bathed in Moonlight

Simple Pleasures III

Ragged Robin

Garden Poems

Arachnid Phobia

There once was a woman named Bobbitt,

Tempus Fugit

Soft Days on Orcas Island

In God’s Hands

All Those Years Ago

Red-Tailed Hawk

A Conversation on Religion

The Devastation That’s Been Done

A Native American’s Recollections

Lost Inside the Universe

On Writing III

Musing Retirement

Bird Song

Bird Song II

Across the Valley

Beneath the Strangled Hold

Little Man Syndrome

5th Avenue Sideshow

Gazing from the Sea Wall

Tribal Knowledge

Pike Place Market II

Diminutive Terms

The Cop, Cell Phone & Chinese Chicken Salad

His Life

Snow on the Mountain

After Fifteen Years of Marriage

There once was a preacher from Bothell,

Heaven on Earth

The Paperboy

Winter Storm

Willowy Boy

There’s Just Something About Winter

After Speaking To Me Harshly

Salmon & Steelhead Fisheries Expanded on the Washougal River

Proposal

Jogging Green Lake

Seeds

Jogging Green Lake II

Autumn

Dreams of my Youth

The Worst of Storms

Tulips

A Step Ahead of Prey

The Farthest Reaches…

Persistence

Orcas Island

Flower Shop

Anatomy of a Rebellious Youth

Preacher Man

Sanctuary

Sanctuary II

Simplicity

Westerly Wind

Fading Stars

Spring Rain

Longing for Hot, Summer Days

Promises Made

Once A Fortnight

A Hundred Years from Now

Horse Enough

What Remains

A Runner Stumbles

Simple Gifts

Xanantunich

Sunday Dinner at Mother’s

Return of Spring

Where Would the Birds Perch?

The Champion

Climbing Glacier Peak

Little-Known Fact

Love & Loss

To an Aspiring Writer

I Married my Wife Late in Life

Late Bloomer

Snow Melting

Perfect Full Moon

The Mighty Sea

Upon Spotting a Spotted Owl

Eternal

Contemplating the Solitude

Since the Death of his Wife

Gazing Upon Stars

Waiting Out the Squall

Visiting the Ruins at Chichen Itza

Spider and the Hemlock

On Self-Worth

A Gull Slowly Circles

Upon Seeing a Spider

But for a Second Glance

Living in the Moment

Cerberus

Whispers from the Koi Pond

The Nature of a Hummingbird

The Return of Spawning Salmon

Shumah

Sundays

Sundays II

Sundays III

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail III

A Bright-Yellow Goldfinch

Tribute to the Poet Robert Sund

The Power of a Teacher’s Words

What You Were Thinking?

A Favorite Moment

Life’s Trials

Fallen Soldier

Sudden Rain

Wind & Rain

Two Below Zero

Winter in Seattle

Greedy Gulls

Laughing to Myself

Zen Garden Under Snow

An Awful Sin

Stopping at the Pioneer Cemetery

Hyoshi

Beneath The Bridge

Nourishing the Tomato Starts

Humpback Whales

Love Affair

Midnight Refrain

Somewhere Along Life’s Path

Fallen Leaves

Bury Me Here

Butterflies

This Ever-Changing World

Appalachian Summer

Beneath a Patch of Wispy Clouds

Marionberries

A Wanderer’s Life

Train Song in the Valley

I Searched for You

Ages Ago

The Amorous Man

Across the Final Bridge

A Lot About Love

Like You or Me

Those Who Take the Field

Bored

Free Concert

It’s Been Such a Wonderful Day

Second Thoughts

Misfortune

9th Inning Romance

Beginnings

Beginnings II

Forgotten Dreams

Neighborhood Kids

A Question for Insomniacs

When I’m Weary

Washing my Aches Away

Beneath my Touch

Wishful Thinking

Gray Clouds, Mist & Rain

A Chinese Poet’s Diet

Pigeons & Crows

I Searched for God

A Turtle Washed Up on the Beach

Ahead of the Storm

When The World’s Just Right

A Little Lie

Watching the Autumn Wind from a Stone Bench in my Backyard

The Lights of Home

Thoughts of Spring

Cay Caulker

Taking Time to Breathe the Present

I Walk the Path to Snow-Capped Mountain

Mindfulness

Woman Walking into Sunlight

Big House

The Bell of Mindfulness

Fireglow Maple

The Land of Milk & Honey

The Battlefield

An Appropriate Time for Mourning

At Winter’s End II

Strolling the Japanese Garden at Night

Another Life

Winter’s Stillness

Ancient Pagoda

Shoeless Joe

Moon & I

Biker Chick

Driving the Mountain Highway

A Dog-Gone Shame

A Life Fulfilled

Squirrel & Crow II

Hawk

Robin’s Song

Tatoosh

A Conversation Between Two Belizians

Rapunzel

The Sandlot

Wooden Ladle

Something

Three Crows

Walking on Water

Across a Winter Sky

Coping with the Craziness

Things Get Done

Walking Down This Old Country Road

Of Silk & Steel

Shopping

A Scolding from Pileated Woodpecker

Observations

Simply What It Is

Guided by a Falling Star

A Dream Slowly Came Upon Me

Wound Knee –

Faded Smiles

On These Days…

Stoics

Since Your Passing, Love

Medicine Woman

Bird on the Wing

Ryan O’Riley

Good Samaritan

Miserable As I’ve Been

Praying for a Refrain

Monday Morning Insomniac

My Attention on You

Embracing Life

The Runner

Before my Time on Earth is Through

And So the White Man Slowly Came

Autumn’s Begun

Ambition

Ambition II

Sun, Clouds & Rain

Gazing from the Mountaintop

The Price of a Life

Fishing from my Front Porch

Somewhere in the Night

Rhubarb

Crow & I

A Hundred Flowers

Horse’s Ass

On Cat’s Feet

Still Beautiful

The Simplest Acts

Once There Was a Girl

Pity the Sailor

A Memory of the Sea

Yellow Butterfly

So Much Bitterness in the World

Hummingbird & Sparrow

Morning Ritual II

The Land of Plenty

Winter Rain on Possession Sound

Morning’s Dew

While She Sleeps

Love in the Rear-View Mirror

Anne Boleyn

The Bestiary

Poem on a Spring Morning

A Flock of Birds

Atlas

On an August Evening

Watching a Storm above Horse Mountain

Approaching Night

Retail Girl

Reading Late into the Evening

Ravages of Rain

Where We Last Left Off

Irish Widow

Guardians of the Desert

Arrival of Spring II

Suffering

Manassas II

What’s Remembered from Childhood…

Thirds

Approaching Winter

When the Moon is at its Fullest

To A Past Lover

Rowing Against the Current

At a Remote End of the Public Park

Thinking About an Old Girlfriend

Thinking About an Old Girlfriend II

All She Really Wanted…

Your Own Little World

Punishment Enough

On A Winter Day

Ambiguity

August Evenings

Somewhere in the Middle

Lament of the Overwatered Flower

Mutual Attraction

Hummingbirds

Utopia II

Devil’s Luck

Watching the Young Gardener

Hints of Autumn

Epic Question

Winter Weather

The Dreams of January

Angry Housewife

Sometimes my Mind…

Eating Vegetables

Snow in the Mountains

Terrapins

A Favorable Rain

Taps at Sunrise

Birdbath

Cleaning the House

Expelling Demons

Spring Songs

The Shepherd Boy’s Dream

The Parting

How Deep Flows the River

Nothing More

Irish Blessing

Inside my Heart

Battle of the Greasy Grass

Robin’s Lullaby

Indulgences

Indulgences II

I, Buddha

A Simple Thing

Beyond the Safety of My Cave

In the Mountains

Our Life’s Bouquet

El Nino

Winter Dreams

Into My Evening Walk

Life

Earthly Woes

At Night When We Are Sleeping

A Father’s Poem

So It Goes…

Should You Ever Wish To Come Back Home

On Wisdom

Forgotten Along the Way

Whisper of Your Name

Butterflies II

Butterflies III

Struggling to Escape

The Neighborhood

Rubbing Buddha’s Belly

Of Marsh & Moon

My Wish, Wife

Questions on Love

If Jesus Met the Buddha…

Impressions

Japanese Garden

Upon Reaching the Mountain’s Top

Valentine’s Day

Hugs

A Bit Overeager

Where the River Flows

Prickles

Fishermen

Fishermen II

Upon Filling the Feeder with Seed

The Night Watchmen at the Zoo

At the Edge of the Salish Sea

At the Edge of the Salish Sea II

Grandpa’s Best Friend

Rivers

Doctor Jack Horner

The Gift & Challenge

I Humbly Go About My Life

Lingering Thoughts…

Upon Us All

In Time…

Our Life Together

Questions for the Birds

Measuring Winter

Empty Wallet

My Way

Come Spring

Easy

Come Spring II

Tai Chi

Squirrel in the Birdfeeder

Silence is the World of Golfers

People on the Lake

Driftwood Shack

Innocence

How Raven Brought the First People into this World

Love Poems

To The Huntsman

River & I

Contemplating Nothingness

Above Mountain, Sky & Maples

An Ear of Corn

The Perfectionist

Master of his Domain

Good Old Days

The Ostrich

Appearances

Appearances II

Northwest Trilogy

Such a Pleasant Surprise

Fancy-Dancing Crows

Autumn Song

A Thousand Birds

Old Mrs. Rounds

Only a Whisper Away

Slug in the Shade

The Nature of my Plight

Destiny

Arrival of Winter II

Seaside

Revisiting My Childhood Haunts

Two Worlds

Hat Island

Birdfeeder Rhapsody

Winterscape

Walking Through My Old Neighborhood

Plenty of Time for Sleep

What Is There About Women & Red Wine?

Taking the Train to the Mariner’s Game

Karaoke at the Oxford Saloon

Yesterday

Yin & Yang

Predator & Prey

Hiking Glacier Peak

A Well-Worn Path

Someday When I Finally Die

Fallen Soldiers

Crow & Weasel

Born of Blood

The Balanced Life

Bamboo

The Price It Brings

Lost & Found II

Thanksgiving Poem

Waking to a Winter Sky

Gazing Upon Blossoming Fountain Cherry

Weeping for Old Khayyam

Religion II

Free Meal

After Spring Rain II

For Moon

A Spanish Lullaby

The Mexican gardener working next door

Two Different Sides of the Same Day

On A Late Autumn Afternoon

Walking Through the Old Neighborhood

My Dog Who Likes To Dig For Bones

Everything but my Question

Winter Birds

Ancient Ways

The Coming Day

Long, Long Ago

Written as a Morning Meditation

How Sad

The Man Who Cares For Flora

Written on the Old Stone Bridge

Flowers in the Garden

Along The Coastal Highway

Upon Awakening

Seasons

There is a Raven in my Blood

An Irish Blessing

The Warrior’s Path

Whiskey Song

Playing in Dirt

Over The Years…

Old Grizzly

Your Quiet Beauty

Planting Perennials

Business Meeting

At Home in Both Worlds

Squirrel & I

Traveling Salesman

When Love Was Fairly New

A Promising Garden

While I Explore the Great Divide

Long Winter

Lament of a Drunk & Womanizer

Song & Dance

Summer Reprieve

Beautiful Day

She Walks the Beach

Through My Bedroom Window

Woman in Waiting

Mice

Upon Training a New Martial Arts Student

Toiling in the Garden

Hummingbird & the Butterfly Bush

Give a Nod