Poem Category: Garden Sundial

Garden quiet
up and over the sundial
ants in a hurry.

Sundial garden
lingering … the scent of basil
plucked for dinner.

Suddenly there
a magpie on the sundial
shading midday.

Both tyres flat
a child’s bike beginning rust
against the sundial.

Garden sundial
an ice frost
that was snow this week.

Garden sundial
mother’s house
sold without it.

Garden sundial
slowly rocking the mantis
prays for some shade.

All in star time
to the garden pond …
a billion years.

Sundial garden
footprints to the tool shed
caught in snow.

Sundial garden
the sleep the owl is losing
to the cold of the moon.