first daffodil
a yellow-striped snake
in its shadow
 

strawberries . . .
picking a handful
snap by snap
 

cattle trails
on silver fields . . . 
autumn dawn
 

snowy beach . . . 
the long slow sweep
of a gull
 

winter kiss . . .
a pink contrail
lingering

Susan Constable is an award winning poet living with her husband on the Canadian west coast.