Birches

a line of birches

partially effaced -- fog
Nature's sfumato

JFK

he waves to the crowds
flashes his sailor's smile
that Irish twinkle

spider

a spider dangles
on a  glassbeaded thread
another show off

11 November -- We will remember them.

red poppies growing
between rows of white tombstones
as in remembrance

What the flood can't efface

faces from the past
they stare at us from photos
washed by the flood

Disjointedness (thanks to Hurricane Sandy )

The tang of brine
on city streets
disjointedness