Sentinel

Standing watch

strong but delicate

graceful dancers

poised to plie—

pink blossom hair

dancing in the spring breeze.

Sisters Three

branched arms tangled

as roots stretch long.

A nesting place,

a feast for the bees.

They keep vigil

with the pines that hold

crows in their boughs,

over the generations

they weep.

LTM 3/26/23