I found a cloud caught
on a tree, but knew
no way to set
it free.

More than simply functional, a manhole cover is street art
that is embossed with geometric or more curvaceous
designs and is experienced as a disc-like sculpture
beneath our feet.

Tenants living in the basement apartment
complain that their view is scissored
by the legs of passersby.

Raindrops paint spreading circles in shades of
green and silver on the pond's surface
in a display of natural performance art.

A couple of shivering cottonwood trees
bend in the wind and rattle
their leaves.

Spiders tally their victims each morning
on an ingenious abacus strung with
silk strands and beads of dew.